Machine.Specifications vs SpecFlow

Machine.Specifications

Machine.Specifications is a Context/Specification framework for .NET that removes language noise and simplifies tests. (by machine)

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#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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Machine.Specifications		SpecFlow
	Project
1	Mentions	2
883	Stars	2,203
-0.1%	Growth	0.5%
4.0	Activity	0.0
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	26 days ago
C#	Language	C#
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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Machine.Specifications

Posts with mentions or reviews of Machine.Specifications. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-29.

Show HN: A C# library to help you enforce a Given-When-Then structured Unit test
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Aug 2021

Looks like a similar concept to https://github.com/machine/machine.specifications which I used many years ago to try and achieve BDD style unit testing.
One point to note from your introduction was the following statement:

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Machine.Specifications and SpecFlow you can also consider the following projects:

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

BDDfy - BDDfy is the simplest BDD framework EVER!

NUnit - NUnit Framework

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.

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)

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.

WireMock.Net - WireMock.Net is a flexible product for stubbing and mocking web HTTP responses using advanced request matching and response templating. Based on the functionality from http://WireMock.org, but extended with more functionality.