SpecFlow V2 Release

Before installing the new version, please read the information on updating. The installation procedure is also covered there. Note that SpecFlow 2 requires .NET 4.5 or higher!

WHAT’S NEW IN SPECFLOW V2?

Important changes in SpecFlow V2 include:

• All components upgraded to .NET 4.5.
  Note: SpecFlow v2 will no longer work with older .NET runtimes!
• Upgraded to the new Gherkin 3 parser
  Note: This change may mean that older feature files are no longer parsed correctly!
• Support for parallel SpecFlow tests within the same AppDomain
• Visual Studio integration has been separated to a separate project
• Support for xUnit 2.0 and NUnit 3.0, including parallel test execution. The older providers have been retained and renamed (to xunit.1 and nunit.2 respectively).
• Ability to determine the execution order of hooks (e.g. [BeforeScenario])
• Extensible table conversions and comparisons for CreateSet, CreateInstance, CompareToSet andCompareToInstance.
• Access the details of the currently executed step with ScenarioContext.StepContext
• Display tags in NUnit test adapter in Visual Studio
• Better regular expression suggestions generated for missing steps with quoted parameters
• Steps base class provides properties for thread-safe access to feature, scenario and step contexts
• Scenario and feature context can be injected to the binding class, avoiding static ScenarioContext.Current and FeatureContext.Current accessors
• Better matching of column names to property names by removing characters that are invalid in property names
• Small improvements in the DI framework
• Easily configure SpecFlow to work with MSTest using the SpecFlow.MsTest NuGet package
• Test execution report now includes “tags” in the NUnit report, which can be displayed using a custom XSLT
• Removed .NET runtime version from generated file headers to avoid unwanted changes

You can find the full changelog here. More information on parallel execution is available in the documentation here.