SpecFlow

What is SpecFlow?

• SpecFlow is inspired by Cucumber framework in the Ruby on Rails world. Cucumber uses plain English in the Gherkin format to express user stories. Once the user stories and their expectations are written, the Cucumber gem is used to execute those stores. SpecFlow brings the same concept to the .NET world and allows the developer to express the feature in plain English language. It also allows to write specification in human readable Gherkin format.

Example of Gherkin

As Gherkin is a structured language it follows some syntax let us first see a simple scenario described in gherkin.

Feature: Search feature for users
This feature is very important because it will allow users to filter products

Scenario: When a user searches, without spelling mistake, for a product name present in inventory. All the products with similar name should be displayed

Given User is on the main page of www.myshopingsite.com
When User searches for laptops
Then search page should be updated with the lists of laptops