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, NUnit (2 and 3), xUnit 2 and MbUnit.
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
That good feeling when our #SpecFlow tests break the CI build, ’cause that innocent css improvement changed more “things” than we expected.
— Diego Giacomelli (@ogiacomelli) September 13, 2016
Trying my hand at testautomation for our #SharePoint solution with #selenium and #specflow. Pretty cool stuff.
— Ernst Wolthaus (@ErnstWolthaus) August 24, 2016
Feeling a sense of accomplishment by integrating #WPF #BDD #SpecFlow #Premake #TestStackWhite. I hope coming days would be productive. 🙂
— Purnank (@purnank) August 12, 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
User Feedback
Its brilliant. The idea of BDD has been one that I have long championed for opening cross discipline discussion around requirements and how software can be measured against requirements.
The ability to drive many forms of tests from basic unit tests of low level code, through acceptance tests for functional specifications to full integration tests utilising additional tooling such as Selenium web drivers has revolutionised the way I write, test and maintain 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!
SpecFlow tests tend to be very easily readable and easily understood by all functional groups within the project, hence it helps a lot to convey the points and to get the tests reviewed by domain experts.
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 is a great tool, making test automation very productive, maintainable, powerful.
It’s a good framework to bridge the gap between technique and business, it’s a good tool to organize the test scenarios.
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