specflow-Selenium-C# test script displays error in Visual Studio 2019 V16.11.2

[Vadivel Sekar]

Hi,

specflow test script displays error in Visual Studio 2019 V16.11.2

Error Details:

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State

Error The "GenerateFeatureFileCodeBehindTask" task failed unexpectedly.

System.Exception: Error when reading project file. ---> System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: Unrecognized element 'unitTestProvider'.

at System.Configuration.ConfigurationElement.DeserializeElement(XmlReader reader, Boolean serializeCollectionKey)

at System.Configuration.ConfigurationSection.DeserializeSection(XmlReader reader)

at TechTalk.SpecFlow.Configuration.ConfigurationSectionHandler.CreateFromXml(String xmlContent)

at TechTalk.SpecFlow.Configuration.ConfigurationLoader.Load(SpecFlowConfiguration specFlowConfiguration, ISpecFlowConfigurationHolder specFlowConfigurationHolder)

at TechTalk.SpecFlow.Generator.Configuration.GeneratorConfigurationProvider.LoadConfiguration(SpecFlowConfiguration specFlowConfiguration, SpecFlowConfigurationHolder specFlowConfigurationHolder)

at TechTalk.SpecFlow.Generator.Configuration.GeneratorConfigurationProviderExtensions.LoadConfiguration(IGeneratorConfigurationProvider configurationProvider, SpecFlowConfigurationHolder configurationHolder)

at TechTalk.SpecFlow.Generator.Project.ProjectReader.ReadSpecFlowProject(String projectFilePath, String rootNamespace)

--- End of inner exception stack trace ---

at TechTalk.SpecFlow.Generator.Project.ProjectReader.ReadSpecFlowProject(String projectFilePath, String rootNamespace)

at TechTalk.SpecFlow.Generator.Project.MSBuildProjectReader.LoadSpecFlowProjectFromMsBuild(String projectFilePath, String rootNamespace)

at SpecFlow.Tools.MsBuild.Generation.SpecFlowProjectProvider.GetSpecFlowProject()

at SpecFlow.Tools.MsBuild.Generation.GenerateFeatureFileCodeBehindTaskExecutor.Execute()

at SpecFlow.Tools.MsBuild.Generation.GenerateFeatureFileCodeBehindTask.Execute()

at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskExecutionHost.Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.ITaskExecutionHost.Execute()

at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskBuilder.d__26.MoveNext() SeleniumWebdriver

Expected : Build generation should be successful

Environment

OS: Windows 10

specflow version: 3.9.22

Selenium version: 4.0.0-rc1

Language Bindings version: C#

Visual Studio version: 2019 V16.11.2

Regards,

Vadivel Sekar

[Adrian]

Hi,

The 1st error looks to be that it can't find the unitTestProvider.  

What unitTestProvider do you use?  I use NUnit.

See https://docs.specflow.org/projects/specflow/en/latest/Installation/Unit-Test-Providers.html

Cheers,

Adrian.

[S Vadivel]

Hi Adrian,

Thanks for the update,

I am using MSTest and when the below tag is keyed-in in the App.config, the error is displayed.

<specFlow>
<unitTestProvider name="MsTest" />
</specFlow>

When the tag is removed, the error disappears, but the tests are not reflected in the MSTest-TestExplorer.

Note: The issue occurs in the "SpecFlow.MSTest version: 3.9.22".

Regards,

Vadivel Sekar

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