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Advanced tips for SpecFlow and Behavior-Driven Development in .NET

We are going to look at things like ScenarioContext, setup and teardown, navigation inside the IDE, and using arguments in step definitions.

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You may have seen my other post about Behavior-Driven Development with .NET, which is a tutorial on how to set it up for you. In this article, I am going to give further tips beyond the basics that will increase your ability to write good tests and debug failing tests faster.

Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) with C# and SpecFlow

Using ScenarioContext/FeatureContext

The ScenarioContext is a state object that lives as long as a scenario runs. You can use it as a Dictionary<string, object> to pass data between steps, so you don’t need to define private fields in your step classes.
To access the ScenarioContext, inject it into the binding class and save a reference to it.