SpecFlow vs xBehave.net

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)

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xBehave.net

✖ An xUnit.net extension for describing each step in a test with natural language. (by adamralph)

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SpecFlow		xBehave.net
	Project
2	Mentions	-
2,203	Stars	378
0.5%	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	8.1
21 days ago	Latest Commit	almost 3 years ago
C#	Language	C#
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT 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.

I need a place to post programming questions
1 project | /r/findareddit | 31 Mar 2023

You can also try posting an issue to the SpecFlow GitHub repo. That sometimes gets me an answer. And when all else fails, I just bite the bullet and post to Stack Overflow.
Specflow on Docker
2 projects | /r/selenium | 13 Sep 2022

Or here... https://github.com/SpecFlowOSS/SpecFlow/blob/master/Dockerfile

xBehave.net

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing SpecFlow and xBehave.net 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.

LightBDD - BDD framework allowing to create easy to read and maintain tests.

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

Moq - Repo for managing Moq 4.x [Moved to: https://github.com/moq/moq]

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

Verify - Verify is a snapshot tool that simplifies the assertion of complex data models and documents.

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.