Specflow not finding external bindings

Question

I have two assemblies with bindings that I need to incorporate into a new assembly.

I've edited my stepBindings to reference both of the assemblies that I need:

<stepAssemblies>
    <stepAssembly assembly="DseSoapApiTests" />
    <stepAssembly assembly="DseRestApiTests" />
</stepAssemblies>

The DseRestApiTests bindings load. I've verified that both names match the assembly names in the .csproj's.

Does anyone have any tips on troubleshooting this issue?

if you remove the reference to the DseRestApiTests do the others load then? Is the assembly DseSoapApiTests referenced by the test project and copied to the output folder? Those are the first things I would check — Sam Holder

nostrebor nostrebor · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-17T19:21:21

The bindings were silently failing to load due to overlapping names, despite being in different namespaces. I.e. in the DseSoapApiTests and DseRestApiTests there was a GlobalBaseProperties.cs file. Weirdly enough, both bindings would load a fraction of the time, but Specflow was definitely not happy.

Specflow not finding external bindings

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