BDD SpecFlow Scenario types

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I have been writing some BDD Scenarios and writing automated tests from them for some time but I am still in a phase of discovery really.

I can see that Visual Studio gives me the option to write a Scenario, a Scenario Outline or a Scenario Template.

I've figured out the difference between Scenario and Scenario Outline (the first runs once and the second one will run for as many examples as you put - please correct me or add something if I am wrong).

However I found little information about "Scenario Template". Could anyone explain the difference? Thanks!

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bddspecflowgherkin

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Scenario Outline and Scenario Template are just synonyms. There is no difference. Both define scenario_outline step. There are several synonyms in English SpecFlow keywords. E.g Examples and Scenarios or Feature and Business Need. Different synonyms are defined for different languages, and specified in internationalization file. E.g. for English:

"en": {
  "name": "English",
  "native": "English",
  "feature": "Feature|Business Need|Ability",
  "background": "Background",
  "scenario": "Scenario",
  "scenario_outline": "Scenario Outline|Scenario Template",
  "examples": "Examples|Scenarios",
  "given": "*|Given",
  "when": "*|When",
  "then": "*|Then",
  "and": "*|And",
  "but": "*|But"
}

For other languages there can be other synonyms. E.g. German and Russian have three different names of Given step: 

"given": "*|Angenommen|Gegeben sei|Gegeben seien"
"given": "*|Допустим|Дано|Пусть"