SpecFlow VS LightBDD

Compare SpecFlow vs LightBDD and see what are their differences.

SpecFlow

#1 .NET BDD Framework. SpecFlow automates your testing & works with your existing code. Find Bugs before they happen. Behavior Driven Development helps developers, testers, and business representatives to get a better understanding of their collaboration (by SpecFlowOSS)

LightBDD

BDD framework allowing to create easy to read and maintain tests. (by LightBDD)
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SpecFlow LightBDD
2 1
2,203 336
0.5% 2.7%
0.0 5.3
20 days ago 11 days ago
C# C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
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SpecFlow

Posts with mentions or reviews of SpecFlow. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-13.

LightBDD

Posts with mentions or reviews of LightBDD. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong
    1 project | /r/programming | 31 Jul 2021
    That's why I'm a fan of frameworks like https://github.com/LightBDD/LightBDD. Getting every single bit of implementation code out of my tests so that they are just a basic set of rules the system has to abide by always makes testing easier to deal with. Nothing nicer than realizing you need to replacing an entire section of the codebase and not have to update a single test, other than a few fixtures behind the scenes.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing SpecFlow and LightBDD you can also consider the following projects:

BDDfy - BDDfy is the simplest BDD framework EVER!

Fluent Assertions - A very extensive set of extension methods that allow you to more naturally specify the expected outcome of a TDD or BDD-style unit tests. Targets .NET Framework 4.7, as well as .NET Core 2.1, .NET Core 3.0, .NET 6, .NET Standard 2.0 and 2.1. Supports the unit test frameworks MSTest2, NUnit3, XUnit2, MSpec, and NSpec3.

xBehave.net - ✖ An xUnit.net extension for describing each step in a test with natural language.

Machine.Specifications - Machine.Specifications is a Context/Specification framework for .NET that removes language noise and simplifies tests.

Xunit.Gherkin.Quick - BDD in .NET Core - using Xunit and Gherkin (compatible with both .NET Core and .NET)

snapshooter - Snapshooter is a snapshot testing tool for .NET Core and .NET Framework

AutoFixture - AutoFixture is an open source library for .NET designed to minimize the 'Arrange' phase of your unit tests in order to maximize maintainability. Its primary goal is to allow developers to focus on what is being tested rather than how to setup the test scenario, by making it easier to create object graphs containing test data.

xUnit - xUnit.net is a free, open source, community-focused unit testing tool for .NET.