SpecFlow: Implementing BDD for .NET

• .NET programming experience
• A basic understanding of programming concepts

Audience

• Test engineers
• Developers

SpecFlow is the official Cucumber implementation for .NET. It allows testers to define, manage and automatically execute human-readable acceptance tests in .NET projects. SpecFlow uses the official Gherkin parser and supports the .NET framework, Xamarin and Mono.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to use SpecFlow to write acceptance tests that are understandable by technical as well as non-technical stakeholders.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Bind business requirements to .NET code.
• Apply BDD techniques to build up living documentation for an application.
• Run SpecFlow from Visual Studio or the command line.
• Integrate SpecFlow into an existing continuous testing and build environment.
• Integrate SpecFlow with other testing frameworks such as MSTest, NUnit, xUnit and MbUnit.

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice.

Introduction

Installing and configuring SpecFlow

Business Driven Development (BDD) and Acceptance test–driven development (ATDD)

Involving the business analysts in your organization

Defining your project requirements

The testing ecosystem (IDEs, programming languages, testing frameworks and build libraries)

Gherkin: writing your stories in a user-friendly language

Writing features and scenarios

Writing step definitions

Organizing features and scenarios with tagging

Working with hooks

Working with databases

Refactoring

Extending SpecFlow with SpecFlow+ and SpecMap (proprietary extensions)

Generating reports

Closing remarks