Specflow and Cucumber for .NET developers – The Master Guide

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Who is this course for?

Chapter 2: Introduction to Behaviour Driven Development

Lecture 1: Module Introduction

Lecture 2: Behavioural Driven Development – What is BDD?

Lecture 3: What is Cucumber and what is Gherkin?

Lecture 4: Why learn Gherkin?

Lecture 5: Gherkin – a universal language

Lecture 6: Gathering Business Requirements

Lecture 7: User Stories with Gherkin

Lecture 8: Testing with Gherkin

Lecture 9: Single source of truth

Lecture 10: Gherkin workflow

Lecture 11: Module Summary

Chapter 3: Gherkin Crash Course

Lecture 1: Module Introduction

Lecture 2: Keywords Introduction

Lecture 3: Feature Keyword

Lecture 4: Scenario Keyword

Lecture 5: Given Keyword

Lecture 6: When Keyword

Lecture 7: Then Keyword

Lecture 8: And Keyword

Lecture 9: But Keyword

Lecture 10: * (Asterix) Keyword

Lecture 11: Main Keyword Recap

Lecture 12: Rule Keyword

Lecture 13: Background Keyword

Lecture 14: Scenario Outline/Examples Keyword

Lecture 15: @ Tag Keyword

Lecture 16: Comments

Lecture 17: Long Description

Lecture 18: Data Table

Lecture 19: Multiple Languages

Lecture 20: Gherkin Keyword Rules

Lecture 21: Module Summary

Chapter 4: Introduction to Specflow

Lecture 1: Module Introduction

Lecture 2: What is Specflow?

Lecture 3: Why Learn Specflow as a .NET developer?

Lecture 4: What is the purpose of an Acceptance Test?

Lecture 5: Types of Specflow Tests

Lecture 6: High level Specflow

Lecture 7: Installing Specflow Extensions for Visual Studio

Lecture 8: Note For Visual Studio 2022

Lecture 9: Installing Specflow Extensions – Visual Studio Code

Lecture 10: Test the specflow extension – new specflow project

Lecture 11: Module Summary

Chapter 5: Getting started with Specflow – Binding Steps

Lecture 1: Module Introduction

Lecture 2: Clean slate Specflow

Lecture 3: Creating Specflow class from scratch

Lecture 4: Binding steps Intro

Lecture 5: Fixing unbound steps

Lecture 6: Alternative binding styles

Lecture 7: Changing default in config

Lecture 8: Running tests for the first time

Lecture 9: Module Summary

Chapter 6: Specflow – How parameters are handled

Lecture 1: Module Introduction

Lecture 2: Debug parameters

Lecture 3: Strings and Ints parameters

Lecture 4: How datatables are handled in parameters

Lecture 5: Module Summary

Chapter 7: Gherkin Data Tables – Specflow Table Assist

Lecture 1: Module Intro

Lecture 2: Table Assist Helper

Lecture 3: Create instance helper method

Lecture 4: Assert using helper methods CompareToInstance

Lecture 5: Assert using helper method CompareToSet

Lecture 6: Fixing implementation

Lecture 7: Module Summary

Chapter 8: Intro to Specflow Hooks

Lecture 1: Module Intro

Lecture 2: Hooks intro

Lecture 3: Hooks Logging

Lecture 4: Output API overview

Lecture 5: Why use hooks?

Lecture 6: Hook order

Lecture 7: Test Run assembly location

Lecture 8: Passing in context dependencies into hooks

Lecture 9: Getting error test property in hooks

Lecture 10: Module Summary

Chapter 9: Splitting Features and Steps

Lecture 1: Module Intro

Lecture 2: Ignore and context pending

Lecture 3: Organising features and steps ideas

Lecture 4: Refactor with split step files

Lecture 5: Refactor without static in split files

Lecture 6: Module Summary

Chapter 10: Sharing Data in Specflow – Context and Dependency Injection

Lecture 1: Module Intro

Lecture 2: Specflow Context System – Using system property bag

Lecture 3: Merging scenario context properties into one

Lecture 4: Context base class approach

Lecture 5: Base class scenario context with dependency injection

Lecture 6: Built-in Dependency injection

Lecture 7: Sharing Data Method – Comparison Roundup

Lecture 8: Module Summary