[SpecFlow] for Visual Studio Code

Ali Mollahosseini

March 19, 2021 11:07 Edited

Even though there is a workaround to have a SpecFlow experience on Visual Studio Code as explained in the guide here, it would still be beneficial to the VS Code users to have an official extension that includes all the handy SpecFlow features.

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  Steve Hernandez

  March 29, 2021 15:37 Edited

  That'd be great! It would enable something like create-react-app where other tools like Boa Constrictor could be curated into a command line tool to grab all the required packages, dependencies and drivers to make a ready to rock test C# test solution in one go. Maybe "constrictor-create 'my fluent test solution' ~/Desktop/" 

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  Andreas Willich

  March 30, 2021 06:41

  Steve Hernandez What are you describing sounds more like a new project template, which can be done via `dotnet new` rather than a feature of a VS Code extension.

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  Richard

  September 05, 2021 20:40

  Would it be possible to have the capabilities to build the back end C# code on build with a SpecFlow extension running on VS Code? 

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  Andreas Willich

  September 06, 2021 16:01

  Richard The `SpecFlow.Tools.MSBuild.Generation` NuGet package is already doing this. It is mandatory since SpecFlow 3. Are you using an older version of SpecFlow?

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  Glen Quinn

  September 22, 2021 10:59

  I use both Visual Studio code and Specflow quite a lot and I will also be in support for a Specflow extension.

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  Tom Worboys

  January 13, 2022 13:52

  This would be very helpful please. Similar to the Visual Studio extension if possible. This would make automation much more accessible to some of our testers that do not have the luxury of a Visual Studio Pro licence.

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  Eric Rommel

  January 23, 2022 10:19

  +1

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  Albin Ma

  February 18, 2022 03:38

  +1. What we need as a bare minimum is the code gen part when feature files are modified. Myself and other developers do not have easy access to windows machines with visual studio installed. It will also help in hiring of remote workers who may not have windows machines and visual studio either.

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  Andreas Willich

  February 28, 2022 13:26

  Albin Ma For years you don't need Visual Studio to generate the code-behind files of feature files. This is done via MSBuild when you compile your project.

  Documentation about it is here: https://docs.specflow.org/projects/specflow/en/latest/Tools/Generate-Tests-From-MsBuild.html

  For SpecFlow 3 this is required.

   

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  Odele, Kayode

  April 06, 2022 17:05

  I would like to see a specflow extension for VS code for seamless recognition and running of tests

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