In this tutorial, we’re going to create a project that supports SpecFlow, nUnit, and .NET Core. To get started, we’ll create a new .NET Core project with nUnit support. To do this, create a folder where the project should be created and run the following .NET CLI command:

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dotnet new nunit

Next, we need to add support for SpecFlow:

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dotnet add package "SpecFlow.NUnit"
dotnet add package "SpecFlow.Plus.LivingDocPlugin"

Now, we’ll want to create the base folders that will be used by SpecFlow. We’ll do this by running the following commands in Windows:

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md Drivers
md Features
md Hooks
md Steps
del UnitTest1.cs

This will also remove the unit test file that accompanies the nUnit project.

Creating a Basic Test

Next let’s open the project in Visual Studio Code. We’ll start by creating a file under the Steps folder called AdditionStepDefinition.cs. The contents of this file will look like:

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using NUnit.Framework;
using TechTalk.SpecFlow;

namespace SpecFlowDemo.Steps
{
    [Binding]
    public sealed class AdditionStepDefinitions
    {
        private readonly ScenarioContext _scenarioContext;
        private int num1 { get; set; }
        private int num2 { get; set; }

        public AdditionStepDefinitions(ScenarioContext scenarioContext)
        {
            _scenarioContext = scenarioContext;
        }

        [When("i add (.*) and (.*)")]
        public void WhenTheTwoNumbersAreAdded(int number1, int number2)
        {
            num1 = number1;
            num2 = number2;
        }

        [Then("the result should be (.*)")]
        public void ThenTheResultShouldBe(int result)
        {
            Assert.AreEqual((num1 + num2), result);
        }
    }
}

You’ll see that from this step definition, we are going to take two numbers, add them together, and ensure the result is correct. Next, we’ll add a new feature called Add.feature with the contents:

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Feature: Add

Scenario: Add two numbers
	When i add 2 and 3
	Then the result should be 5

And head back to our command line. Now, when we run the command dotnet test, we should see a new file in our project, Add.feature.cs added. We should also notice that our test was successfully executed:

Successful SpecFlow Execution