[VisualStudio Extension] Autoformat allows to have blank lines between steps

Patrick Säuerl

September 15, 2020 06:50

The autoformatting with specflow in visual studio is a really nice feature, altough it produces quite a dense output.

Example:

Scenario: Add two numbers
    Given the first number is 50
    And the second number is 70
    When the two numbers are added
    Then the result should be 120

 

My team was used to manually format the files, using a great deal of autoformatting of tables with the last pipe. We are used to having a blank line between the steps for readability, as we got a lot of tables in them. This would look like:

Scenario: Add two numbers

    Given the first number is 50

    And the second number is 70

    When the two numbers are added

    Then the result should be 120

Having the feature to confugre, that there is a blank line between all steps, would help our team adopt auto-formating

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• Official comment

  

  Mario Steiner

  January 11, 2021 12:51

  Update: Under consideration

  thanks for your request. I updated the title from SpecFlow to the Visual Studio Extension.

  We are currently evaluating how we can improve the overall Developer/Tester IDE Experience.

  We'll keep you updated.
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  Sophie Keiblinger

  October 04, 2021 14:18

  In addition:

  Tables should be able to follow immediately after the step they belong to (i.e. being exempt from the newline option)

  Scenario: Add two numbers
  
      Given the following data exists:
          | column header | column header |
          | 50            | 70            |
  
      And another step exists
  
      When we do something with the data
  
      Then the result should be something

   

   

  It would also be great to further indent keywords like "And" and "Or" so it is immediately visible, which steps belong to a certain keyword block and when a new one starts.
  
  

  Scenario: Add two numbers
  
      Given the first number is 50
  
          And the second number is 70
  
      When the two numbers are added
  
      Then the result should be 120
  
  
  Scenario: describe system behaviour here with a table
      Given the following data exists:
          | column header | column header |
          | 50            | 70            |
  
          And another step exists
  
      When we do something with the data
  
      Then the result should be something

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