Unable to execute features : Failed to configure settings for runsettings plugin 'VSTest Run Configuration'

[Mark Winspear]

Hi all

I am trying to execute my first specflow feature in Visual Studio (having previously set up a framework using Java, Cucumber and Selenium).

I have installed (using NuGet), Specflow, NUnit, Selenium.Support, Selenium.WebDriver, SpecFlow.MsTest and SpecFlow.NUnit

My app.config file contains the following:

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

<configuration>

  <configSections>

    <section name="specFlow" type="TechTalk.SpecFlow.Configuration.ConfigurationSectionHandler, TechTalk.SpecFlow" />

  </configSections>

  <specFlow>

       <unitTestProvider name="MsTest"/>

  </specFlow>

</configuration>

On running the feature file, I get the following:

----- Discover test started ------

Failed to configure settings for runsettings plugin 'VSTest Run Configuration' as it threw following exception:

'An error occurred while parsing EntityName. Line 1, position 32.'

Please contact the plugin author.

========== Discover test finished: 0 found (0:00:00.0370009) ==========

First port of call is a good spell of googling, yet I have found no solutions.

Changing the unitTestProvider to NUnit has the same result.

I am using Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise

Can anyone help please?

Thanks

Mark

[Sam Holder]

 My first port of call would be to get things working with the minimum number of packages. So I would remove all of these:

NUnit, Selenium.Support, Selenium.WebDriver, SpecFlow.MsTest and SpecFlow.NUnit

then i would add a reference to the visual studio quality testing unit test dll so that MStest works and see if the issue is resolved

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[Mark Winspear]

Thanks for the reply

I started again, and as simply as I could:

1. Un-installed and re-installed Visual Studio (just in case)

2. Open Visual Studio and add the Specflow extension (Tools > Extensions and Updates)

3. Create new Unit Test project

4. Add a new Specflow feature file (which contains an example feature)

5. Add References via NuGet for SpecFlow and SpecFlow.NUnit

6. Build solution

Unfortunately the same issue occurs

[Mark Winspear]

For information - if anyone else has this issue... One of the parent folders that the solution was in had an ampersand in the title - this was causing the cryptic error!

[Stephen McCafferty]

Thanks for posting an follow-up with your insights so other users with the same issue can find a solution in future.

[mahesh....@prototechsolutions.com]

Thank you. Removing special char '&'  from file path resolved my issue. Thanks.