Why isn't the code in my specflow BeforeTestRun method being executed?

specflow

Solution

The `BeforeTestRun`-decorated method will only be noticed by specflow if it's in a `Binding`-decorated class. As far as I can see this isn't explciitly called out in the documentation.

Simple add a `Binding` attribute to your class:

namespace MyProject.IntegrationTest
{
    [Binding]            // <==================== here
    public static class Global
    {

and your `BeforeTestRun` method will be called as desired.

Problem

I've written code that I want executed before a run of specflow tests, to set up various globals that all the tests will need: ``` namespace MyProject.IntegrationTest { public static class Global { public static Dictionary<string, string> ContextProperties { get; set; } [BeforeTestRun] public static void TestInitialize() { // code to populate ContextProperties var baseUrl = Global.ContextProperties["baseUrl"]; if (baseUrl.Contains("//localhost")) { // It's our responsibility to make sure the service is running // TODO start iis express for the service } // etc } } } ``` However, this code isn't being executed. I've made sure to put `BeforeTestRun` on a `static` method, as the documentation says to, so what's wrong?

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