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Pickles–Generate documentation from your SpecFlow tests

I’m a big fan of SpecFlow, a BDD framework that allows you to write your tests as executable specifications. A colleague mentioned another tool, Pickles, that generates documentation in a variety of formats from your specifications. Time to give it a try…

Installing Pickles

The easiest way to integrate Pickles in your project is to download it through NuGet. So let’s do that first:

Install-Package Pickles

This will download the Pickles Powershell DLL and load it in the Package Manager shell.

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Running Pickles from Powershell

Let’s write some Powershell code to test Pickles. First initialize some variables to simplify the readability:

And now invoke the Pickle-Features command:

You should see similar results like below:

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Let’s have a look at the generated results. You get a nice website which shows you all the features and their test results:

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Specflow also supports other formats then HTML. Here is the full list:

  • HTML
  • DHTML (javascript-enabled, search capabilities)
  • JSON
  • Word
  • Excel

More information

For more information, have a look at the following links:

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