[SpecFlow] Generators to support generating attributes with name value pairs from tags

Sam Shackleton

April 15, 2021 12:27 Edited

Hi,

To help with test categorisation NUnit, xUnit, and MSTest all support attributes which allow you to decorate a test class or method with name/value pairs:

- NUnit Property Attribute

- xUnit Trait Attribute 

- MSTest TestProperty Attribute

Does SpecFlow support mapping tags to those attributes? (eg map @Foo:Bar to name = Foo, value = Bar)

If you'd like I'm happy to go in to more detail about why I'd think it is helpful, but I'm just wondering if you have ever considered this previously/thinks its possible?

Also, I know I may be able to achieve this for my own use by creating a custom generator plugin and using decorators.

Thanks,

Sam

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  Andreas Willich

  April 16, 2021 11:47

  No, this feature is not available at the moment. We convert tags to traits/testcategories, but that is all.

  But I would be happy to review a Pull Request for SpecFlow that will add this feature to SpecFlow.

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  Sam Shackleton

  April 17, 2021 09:22

  For some reason I thought that the Test Explorer in Visual Studio groups tests which had the same property name (when you group by traits) but I was mistaken so I'm not sure this feature would be particularly beneficial.

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  Andreas Willich

  April 19, 2021 07:54

  Test Explorer is capable to group by traits and as we convert the tags into traits, this use case is already working.

  So is the use case you had in mind with this feature request already covered?

  Tbh, I am a little bit confused now.

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