[specflow] SpecFlow 1.3 released: Using the official Gherkin Parser & New Features

[SpecFlow TechTalk]

Today we released SpecFlow 1.3.

You can download it here:
http://specflow.org/downloads/installer.aspx

Thanks goes to the contributers!
If you have any problems please report it here.

New features:
(complete changelog: http://github.com/techtalk/SpecFlow/blob/master/changelog.txt)

New features:
+ Using standard Gherkin parser (http://github.com/aslakhellesoy/
gherkin) v1.0.24
+ Context injection in step definitions. Step definitions can get a
context injected with
constructor injection. (Issue 30)
See examples in Tests/FeatureTests/ContextInjection
+ Using steps in other assemblies. This enables writing steps in VB.
(Issue 19)
See examples in Tests/FeatureTests/ExternalSteps
+ Steps can be invoked from other steps using step text. See examples
in
Tests/FeatureTests/CallingStepsFromStepDefinitions
+ Custom step parameter converters can be defined as a binding.
See examples in Tests/FeatureTests/StepArgumentTransfomation
+ SpecFlow feature files can be added also to VB.NET projects
+ Support for xUnit
+ Single installer for Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 (Issue 6, 10, 11)
+ Place GeneratedCodeAttribute and 'Designer generated code' region on
generated code to
avoid having this code parsed by code analysis. (Issue 33)
+ Configuration option to disable all output. (Issue 29)
Use the following config to disable output:
<trace listener="TechTalk.SpecFlow.Tracing.NullListener,
TechTalk.SpecFlow" />

Fixed issues:
+ SpecFlow Reporting doesn't work with Firefox (Issue 31)
+ Binding methods are executed using the culture of the feature file.
+ Several parsing issues are solved now (Issue 1, 8, 9, 37)

[aslak hellesoy]

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:57 PM, SpecFlow TechTalk <spec...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Today we released SpecFlow 1.3.
>
> You can download it here:
> http://specflow.org/downloads/installer.aspx
>
> Thanks goes to the contributers!
> If you have any problems please report it here.
>
> New features:
> (complete changelog: http://github.com/techtalk/SpecFlow/blob/master/changelog.txt)
>
> New features:
> + Using standard Gherkin parser (http://github.com/aslakhellesoy/
> gherkin) v1.0.24

Oooh awesome!! Was it easy to integrate? Any speed impact? Faster or
slower than before? What about startup time (loading assemblies).
Faster or slower than before?

Aslak

[Jonas Bandi]

Probably the biggest issue was that the IKVM-generated Gherkin.dll is an unsigned assembly.
Gaspar had to create some tooling to sign it. He can tell you more about that.

Apart from that I think integration was quite straight forward...

Concerning speed we have no numbers yet. The gut feeling is that it has no impact.

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