specflow.advancesteps's Introduction

SpecFlow.AdvanceSteps

This plugin provides a facility to

to peek into step definitions
to do regression on scenarios

Installation

[TODO] Get it from nuget at SpecFlow.AdvanceSteps

Peek into steps

Usage

The plugin works by adding extention methods to ScenarioContext and ScenarioStepContext

To enable peeking add @enable-peeking tag to to the scenario definition

@enable-peeking
Scenario: Scenario demonstrating step peeking  
	Given I have a simple given statement
	And I have a another simple given statement
	When I successfully enquire about the current statement
	And I successfully enquire about the next statement
	And I successfully enquire about the previous statement
	Then I have a simple then statement

Context	Extension method	Details
ScenarioContext	GetAllSteps()	Get all steps information
ScenarioStepContext	GetCurrentStep()	Get details about the currently executing step
.	GetPreviousStep()	Get details about the previously executed step
.	GetNextStep()	Get details about the next step to be executed

StepDefinition

The step information is presented as StepDefinition instead of StepInfo object. However, the information present in StepDefinition is same as provided by StepInfo.

Limitation

The steps that are invoked from within step bindings are not visible. These invoked steps would have access to Previous and Next steps information, but most likely it would be incorrect.
Debugging by adding breakpoint to gherkin file will not allow to jump into the step definition code. This is because of the fact that the steps are executed at the end of the scenario. However it is possible to debug into the steps by putting the breakpoint within the step definition code.