teamcity - Specflow Generateall verbose

Question

I run 1000s of tests using specflow 2.0 and team city. Currently due to the amount of tests it often takes to the end of a run to realise that some tests failed to generate. I want to know if its possible to get the verbose output of the GenerateAll command for the generation of tests to save to a notepad file or interact with it directly with code in the project. This way we can run the output through some basic code to tell us how many tests failed to generate

Im not sure if its as simple as adding something to the command line or more complex so im not sure what additional info to provide.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65847296/specflow-generateall-verbose

Answer 1

You can use the MSBuild Generation to generate the code-behind files. With that, you get the errors as normal build errors.

If you are on SpecFlow >= 2.3, you can simply add the SpecFlow.Tools.MSBuild.Generation NuGet to your project and that should it be.

If you are on some earlier version, it is more complicated. So the best would be to update to the latest SpecFlow version.

Detailed documentation can be found here: https://docs.specflow.org/projects/specflow/en/latest/Tools/Generate-Tests-From-MsBuild.html