I can't get StepDefinitionReport to work

[Marcus Hammarberg]

Hello,

just found this little gem (stepdefinitionreport) of a switch for the
SpecFlow.exe. But for the life of me I cannot get it to work.

Here is a little transcript from my command prompt;

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Directory of C:\Dev\DemoSpecFlowTags\DemoSpecFlowTags

2010-12-15 07:44 <DIR> .
2010-12-15 07:44 <DIR> ..
2010-12-14 09:26 <DIR> bin
2010-12-15 07:47 3 460 DemoSpecFlowTags.csproj
2010-12-14 09:23 <DIR> obj
2010-12-14 09:23 <DIR> Properties
2010-12-14 20:54 1 018 TagDemo.feature
2010-12-14 20:54 6 133 TagDemo.feature.cs
2010-12-14 20:54 3 622 TagemonstrationSteps.cs
4 File(s) 14 233 bytes
5 Dir(s) 4 418 322 432 bytes free

C:\Dev\DemoSpecFlowTags\DemoSpecFlowTags>"%ProgramFiles(x86)%\TechTalk
\SpecFlow\SpecFlow.exe" stepdefinitionreport DemoSpecFlowTags.csproj
Could not load file or assembly 'DemoSpecFlowTags' or one of its
dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

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What am I doing wrong?

[Gáspár Nagy]

Hi,

The step definition report needs a compiled (it loads the compiled
assembly to discover the bindings). By default it loads it from bin/
Debug, but you can also specify this explicitly.

Br,
Gaspar

[Marcus Hammarberg]

Yup - I found it...

Not surprisingly it was something I did (or maybe not).

My Spec-assembly was in .NET 4.0 and hence could not be loaded by the
SpecFlow.exe-project that is in .NET Framework 3.5.

I changed it now in a local copy and it works just fine.

Is there a reason not to upgrade all projects to 4.0? If you create
MsTest projects with Visual Studio 2010 you (until recently) had to
chose 4.0.

I can live with my local copy for now but other people might run into
the same issue, I presume
/Marcus

[Marcus Hammarberg]

I blogged about my solution here: http://www.marcusoft.net/2010/12/know-where-you-stepgenerate-step.html
/Marcus

[Fab]

I get an error with or without the config file

- Wihtout any config file I get :

Could not load file or assembly 'CodedUITestProject2' or one of its dependencies

. The system cannot find the file specified.

- With specflow.exe.config containing

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> 

<configuration> 

    <startup> 

         <supportedRuntime version="v4.0.30319" /> 

    </startup> 

</configuration> 

I get :

Could not load file or assembly 'CodedUITestProject2, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=n

eutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find

the file specified.

What can I do ?

Thanks in advance !

[Fab]

Actually my project was in .NET 4.5 and not 4.0. It works now.

[Shipra Agarwal]

How did you solve the issue. I am using .NET 4.6.1 but still facing issue

[Carol]

Hi,

Did you actually find a way to run it successfully ?

Would help a lot.