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The Nbehave team is pleased to announce a new release of NBehave. You can grab it here

Whats new

• Support for .net 3.5 and 4.0
• tables & examples
• comments, start the line with a # and what follows is a comment
• languages, start the text file with #language: se see languages.yml for supported languages (only swedish and english so far)
• testdriven.net support for running text files, thanks to Alan Gardner for patch.
• support for parameters of type array, IEnumerable<T>, ICollection<T>, IList<T>, List<T>
• run multiple text scenarios from console with /sf
• /sf supports relative paths
• generate empty step methods by passing /codegen (or /c) to nbehave-console.exe
• You can tell NBehave-console.exe to wait for a debugger to attach before running any features, just add command line parameter /waitForDebugger
• more code examples, just unzip NBehave.Examples.zip distributed with the release
• plugin for Visual Studio 2010 to run and debug scenarios from Visual Studio
• Ability to specify length quantifiers on tokens
• fluent interface changed
• Nbehave now uses the config file of you step assembly.

We also have 2 new committers, John Rayner and Naeem Khedarun who have contributed to several new features.

A new version of NBehave is out. You can grab it here.


Whats in the release

• •Spec framework
  
  
  
  • •Aligned extensionmethods between the different test frameworks.
  
  
  • •Added SpecificationAttribute to decorate methods with
  
  
  • •Using NUnit 2.5.2
  
  
  • •Using XUnit 1.5
  
  
  • •Using MbUnit 3.1.3.313
  
  
  • •Fixed bug with extension method ShouldContain when parameter is string. I didnt know strings implemented IEnumerable!
  
  
  
  


• •Narrative framework (text and fluent interface)
  
  
  
  • •Fluent interface marked as obsolete
  
  
  • •Story and narrative support in scenario files
  
  
  • •Lists all pending actions
  
  
  • •Support for array parameters
  
  
  • •new attributes, BeforeScenario, AfterScenario, BeforeStep and AfterStep. Thanks to John Rayner for patch.
  
  
  • •xslt to convert xml output to html, use it with your build server. Thanks to Frederic Monjo for patch.
  
  
  • •Console output now has colours.
  
  
  • •new regular expression for parameter matching, faster and supports more variants (.+) . Its also way faster now :)
  
  
  • •GivenAttribute, WhenAttribute and ThenAttribute replaces ActionStepAttribute.
  
  
  • •GivenAttribute, WhenAttribute and ThenAttribute supports regular expressions for almost total control over parameter matching. Dont forget to end your regular expression with a $
  
  
  • •parameter names allow more characters when using [Given(“my name is $userName”)], parameter name must match regular expression [a-zA-Z]\w+
  
  
  • •Examples are fixed
  
  
  • •fixed a bug that hung the runner
  
  
  • •fixed bug where events wasnt fired wich caused incorrect output
  
  
  • •fixed bug causing exceptions when generating xml output
  
  
  • •fixed bug in text output file not reporting failure on steps
  
  
  • •Fixed bug where scenarios and stories wasnt counted correctly
  
  
  • •Fixed bug where only last error was reported back.
  
  
  • •Fixed bug where scenario event was raised for the wrong scenario
  
  
  
  

NBehave 0.4 has been released, here’s whats new since the 0.3 release

• • NSpec merge, context/specification style


• • SpecBase & SpecBase base classes for consistent specs
  
  
  
  • • supporting NUnit, MbUnit, Xunit, MSTest
  
  
  
  


• • lives in NBehave.Spec namespace.

• • Assert extension methods for NUnit, MbUnit, Xunit, MSTest
  
  
  
  • • lives in NBehave.Spec namespace.
  
  
  • • ex 42.ShouldEqual(42);
  
  
  
  


• • Testdriven.NET plugin for story framework


• • MSBuild task


• • NAnt task


• • Xml output for msbuild, nant and console runner


• • Behaviour specification as plain text


• • Example project


• • Installer