Binding Business Requirements to .NET Code
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What is SpecFlow?
Use SpecFlow to define, manage and automatically execute human-readable acceptance tests in .NET projects. Writing easily understandable tests is a cornerstone of the BDD paradigm and also helps build up a living documentation of your system.
SpecFlow is open source and provided under a BSD license. As part of the Cucumber family, SpecFlow uses the official Gherkin parser and supports the .NET framework, Xamarin and Mono.
SpecFlow integrates with Visual Studio, but can be also used from the command line (e.g. on a build server). SpecFlow supports popular testing frameworks: MSTest v2, NUnit 3 and xUnit 2.
SpecFlow+ adds additional functionality to SpecFlow, such as Visual Studio Test Explorer integration, a dedicated test runner with advanced test execution options, execution reports (HTML, XML, JSON) and much more.
The essence in three easy steps
STEP 1
Specify
Describe the behavior of your system using human-readable syntax. Define specifications in the problem domain using the language of your stakeholders and build up a living documentation of your system.
STEP 2
Automate
Bind your test specifications to your application code to automate the testing of your system. Ensure that all your tests pass!
STEP 3
Enjoy!
Relax in the knowledge that SpecFlow will automatically identify breaking changes covered by your tests. Cut down on forensic development and enjoy the peace of mind that comes from knowing exactly what your software does and is supposed to do – even months later.
Praise for SpecFlow on Twitter
Trying my hand at testautomation for our #SharePoint solution with #selenium and #specflow. Pretty cool stuff.
— Ernst Wolthaus (@ErnstWolthaus) August 24, 2016
Although I have avoided .NET projects for last 5 years, I have to credit @specflow for first opening up a whole new world for me 😉
— Paul Littlebury (@jaffamonkey) September 5, 2016
just got a demo of our site running #selenium using #specflow from one of the devs on my team here 😍 my mind is literally just going "#automate everything!" right now
— RichardReddy (@RichardReddy) November 19, 2018
Really enjoying learning about behavior driven development – definitely a big step forward! #BDD #specflow
— David Freeman (@jellyw00t) December 9, 2017
User Feedback
I have been using Specflow in all of my projects since 2011. It has singlehandedly revolutionized software testing.
The way that tests, data, and their expected results can be viewed in a readable format, by any user, and once the test harnesses have been created, written by any user, has allowed our business users to become more involved in our testing process.
They can easily review those tests for correctness and suggest new tests. With Gherkin language plug-ins available in Chrome and other utilities, the users don’t need dev tools on their desktops to contribute; and they can help write tests before we have written a single line of code!
I’m new to the world of testing, having only been in the job for just over a year.
Specflow has helped me to understand how a test scenario should be written.
With test steps broken down into steps, I found it easy to code our automated tests. And the integration with Selenium WebDriver and Visual Studio is brilliant.
Keep up the good work!
Excelent tool for BDD style automation framework. I have automated Microsoft CRM application using C#, Selenium and Specflow. Wonderful combination with SpecFlow.
SpecFlow is an amazing framework to work with. It considerably reduced the time I needed to write tests. I would recommend it to anybody in the testing community.
It’s an amazing way to write test cases, in a very readable and logical way. Loved it!
It’s a great tool. Actually, anything what I need to create test cases is already present in SpecFlow.
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