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I have a Specflow Selenium BDD automation solution in C# using Visual Studio and want to start scheduling some automation runs based on tags and possibly features.

I've only used Nunit as a test runner in the past. Does Specflows own runner offer any distinct advantages? I'm also considering Xunit.

I was hoping to find a comparison somewhere but had no luck, is this just a personal choice thing?

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Configuring the Unit Test Provider Tests are executed using a unit test provider. Add the corresponding NuGet package to your project to define your unit test provider:

SpecRun.Runner SpecFlow.xUnit SpecFlow.MsTest SpecFlow.NUnit You can only have one unit test provider!

Source: Executing SpecFlow Scenarios

All these frameworks are supported , why would you want to switch to xunit?

 nunit3-console.exe mytest.dll --where="Description=='Login' and cat == ie"

This is an example to run feature having name Login and tag having name or ie

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  • thanks, yes thats how I've used Nunit in the past. I was curious as to whether switching unit test provider to Specflows own SpecRun.Runner (or Xunit) would give any additional functions or benefits.
    – m_finn
    Dec 16, 2020 at 8:51
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    stackoverflow.com/a/58374136/6793637. This is the answer from specflow maintainer itself
    – PDHide ♦
    Dec 16, 2020 at 9:07
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xUnit.

( ... or even unittest, pytest, if you would consider python: "unittest : A unit testing framework for Python. It is python’s xUnit style framework." )

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