Cucumber Recipes

Recipe 24

Test .NET Code with SpecFlow

Problem

You want to execute .NET code from a Cucumber test. For example, you might be writing integration tests for an ASP.NET web application or GUI tests for a desktop app. Because your GUI test framework or your web components are written in C#, you need to be able to call them from the .NET universe.

Ingredients

• Microsoft Visual Studio Professional^[152] 2010 or 2012 for building the examples

• SpecFlow for parsing Cucumber syntax^[153]

• A test runner such as NUnit,^[154] xUnit.net,^[155] or SpecRun^[156]

• The NuGet package manager^[157] to install SpecFlow and the test runner

Solution

SpecFlow is an open source test framework that recognizes Cucumber’s Gherkin syntax (in fact, it uses the same Gherkin ...