Find unused step definitions in SpecFlow 3+

[rik-smeets]

SpecFlow Version:

• 3.0

Issue Description

Before SpecFlow 3, you could generate a report to find unused step definitions (see Reporting and the original resolved issue #307). However, this isn't possible anymore due to specflow.exe being deprecated. It'd be nice if an alternative could be created for this, so we can cleanup old forgotten step definitions. Thanks!

[cosminstirbu]

Hi,

I'm also interested in this.
Before migrating to SpecFlow 3 and .NET Core we were using specflow.exe stepdefinitionreport as part of our Pull Request builds to make sure we were not leaving any unused step definitions / or have undefined steps out there (failing the build if that would be the case).

From all the reports related features that specflow.exe had, the most important from my point of view was stepdefinitionreport since it automated any mess that we would accidentally leave behind.

Please considering adding this feature back for SpecFlow 3 and .NET Core

Thanks,
Cosmin

[Stephen-Mc]

If anyone wants to take on this request, here's the link to the repo containing the old code:
https://github.com/techtalk/SpecFlow.Reports

(It's also linked from the Reporting page in the documentation)

[gburghardt]

I see the step definition report source code was copied over to SpecFlow.Reports. Has anyone done any testing for this? Is it semi-functional? Just curious to know what the current state of this is.

[PavelStryhelskiIDT]

Same issue, folks.
we are looking into moving to SpecFlow3, but the main blocker is stepdefinitionsreport.
Any updates for this feature to be back again?

[SabotageAndi]

To make it easier for you all to vote on feature requests and influence our prioritization of them in our backlog, we created in our new support tool a special forum to have a better overview of all of them. We moved this feature request there and you can find it here. Sadly we could not take over the existing votes. So if you are still interested in this feature request, please vote again on the new list.

[alexmalimon]

Hi,
Look at .Net Core Global Tool I've created. It generates almost the same step definition usage report like previous one. Links to Nuget and Github.

[ozslab]

Update: We are happy to announce that SpecFlow+ LivingDoc now supports displaying unused step definitions.

You need to install or update to the latest SpecFlow.Plus.LivingDoc.CLI NuGet package (as of writing: 3.5.186).

Further read:

• How to install the CLI tool: https://docs.specflow.org/projects/specflow-livingdoc/en/latest/LivingDocGenerator/Installing-the-command-line-tool.html

• Unused step definitions: https://docs.specflow.org/projects/specflow-livingdoc/en/latest/LivingDocGenerator/Unused-step-definition-report.html

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