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A Complete Guide to Specflow and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) Tutorial:<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is Specflow?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Specflow is a testing framework supporting BDD practices in .NET framework. It\u2019s an open-source framework hosted on GitHub. It aids in using ATDD (Acceptance test driver development) for .NET Applications. With this, we can define scenarios in plain English defined by Gherkin language that is understandable by anyone.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are various tools for writing tests in the BDD approach like Cucumber\/JBehave for Java, Lettuce for Python, Jasmine for Javascript, Specflow<\/strong> for .NET. <\/strong><\/wp-block><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BDD<\/strong> (Behavior Driven Development) is a set of practices or an approach similar to TDD (Test Driven Development), which aims to bridge the communication gap between different stakeholders like Product, Developers, and Testers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The end goal of the BDD approach is to create business requirements that could be understood by the entire team to avoid misunderstandings and help to ship the feature being developed most acceptably.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Complete Specflow Tutorial Series:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read through the Complete Specflow Training Series<\/strong> for a better understanding of the concept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tutorial #1:<\/strong> Introduction to Specflow BDD Tool<\/a> (This Tutorial)
Tutorial #2:<\/strong> Specflow and Selenium Example<\/a>
Tutorial #3:<\/strong> Specflow Binding & Advanced Concepts<\/a>
Tutorial #4:<\/strong> Step Argument Transformations & Specflow Tables<\/a>
Tutorial #5:<\/strong> Specflow Living Documentation with Pickles<\/a>
Tutorial #6:<\/strong> Specflow Report Generator<\/a>
Tutorial #7:<\/strong> Specflow Interview questions<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Brief Overview of Tutorials in the Specflow Series:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tutorial #<\/th>Description<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1<\/td>Introduction to Specflow BDD Tool<\/a> (This Tutorial)<\/strong>
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\nThis introductory tutorial will explain you all about Specflow in detail. Specflow is a testing framework supporting BDD practices in .NET framework. It\u2019s an open source framework hosted on GitHub. It aids in using ATDD (Acceptance test driver development) for .NET Applications.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>Specflow and Selenium Example<\/a><\/strong>
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\nThis tutorial will focus on the Integration of Selenium with Specflow framework through a simple test scenario of video search on Youtube application. You will also check how to share data across different bindings through private class fields.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>Specflow and Selenium Example<\/a><\/strong>
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\nThis tutorial will focus on the Integration of Selenium with Specflow framework through a simple test scenario of video search on Youtube application. You will also check how to share data across different bindings through private class fields.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>Step Argument Transformations & Specflow Tables<\/a><\/strong>
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\nThis informative Specflow tutorial will expalin in detail about Step Argument transformations which allow custom type conversions for Specflow arguments to avoid boilerplate code and Specflow tables come in handy when you need to pass in a lot of fields\/data in single step in a user friendly tabular format.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>Specflow Living Documentation with Pickles<\/a><\/strong>
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\nFrom this Specflow tutorial you will get to know how to generate good looking living documentation through an open source framework called pickles using your existing Specflow files.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>Specflow Report Generator<\/a><\/strong>
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\nIn this Specflow Reporting tutorial, you will learn the ways of executing Specflow feature tests along with generating HTML reports through the Specflow executable.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>Specflow Interview questions<\/a><\/strong>
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\nA list of the most popular Specflow interview questions and answers with examples are included in this tutorial for you to crack any Specflow interview successfully at the first attempt.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Let’s start with the first tutorial in this series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Introduction to Specflow BDD Tool<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Watch the Video Tutorial:<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a video tutorial on Specflow and Behavior Driven Development:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n