Installation

To install the extension, two solutions :

• Download the last executable release (VSIX file)
• Download and compile the source code

Configure the SpecFlow Tfs Linker Extension

In Visual Studio 2010, clic on “Tools” / “Options” and look for the “SpecFlow Tfs Linker” section.

On this section, you will be able to modify the behaviour of the plugin.

Regex

• Clean Statement Regex : The regex used be the program to clean the statement and delete the “Given”, “When”, “Then” and “And” word.  eg : In TFS, you wrote “Given the user Patrick try to acces to the Index Page”. With the clean statement regex, you will obtain : “the user Patrick try to acces to the Index Page”.
• Find Parameter Regex : The regex used to find parameters in statement. In test case, when you want to add parameters in the statement, you just have to put them into quote “".
• Find Statement Regex : In TFS, you  wrote a complete User Story whith the Given, When, Then and And words. The regex allow the program to extract these Gerkin’s statements.

SpecFlow Generated files

• StepDefinition Template : A link to the T4 template which describes the SpecFlow StepDefinition file.
• Feature Template : A link to the T4 template which describes the SpecFlow Feature file.

SpecFlow Method Parameters

• Display parameter Format :
• FormatParameter ;

Visual Studio Add-In Parameter

• Generated folder Name :

TFS Parameter

• Server Name
• User Story query
• Work Item type