Testing with playwright-browserstack Specflow in C# with XUnit

Playwright Integration with BrowserStack.

Setup

• Clone the repo and run cd bstack_playwright_specflow
• Set env variable BROWSERSTACK_USERNAME="browserstack_username" and BROWSERSTACK_ACCESS_KEY="browserstack_accessKey"
• Run dotnet build

Running your tests

• Run dotnet test

Testing frameworks and libraries

• SpecFlow is used as a BDD framework and XUnit is used for test runner.
• Dotnet 6.0 is configured but different versions of .Net can be used

Notes

• There are 2 different feature files and each feature files includes 2 test cases, for chrome and microsoft edge.

• When the tests are run with command dotnet test XUnit runner default behaviour is to run the different features parallel but it runs the scenarios in the same feature sequentially.

• If you would like to disable parallel execution, you can set [assembly: CollectionBehavior(DisableTestParallelization = true)] or it can also be configurable in the xunit.runner.json file.

• Parallel execution maximum count can be configurable from xunit.runner.json with variable maxParallelThreads.

• XUnit does not support parallel execution in the same feature. Here is the documentation https://docs.specflow.org/projects/specflow/en/latest/Execution/Parallel-Execution.html

• For running scenarios parallel, it seems only supported runner for .net is SpecFlow+

• Understand how many parallel sessions you need by using our Parallel Test Calculator

• You can view your test results on the BrowserStack Automate dashboard

• To view the capabilities for playwright visit (https://www.browserstack.com/docs/automate/playwright/playwright-capabilities)

Additional Resources

• Documentation for writing Automate test scripts with BrowserStack