How do you run SpecFlow scenarios from the command line using MSTest?

Question

I\'ve got Visual Studio 2010, and we have two VS solutions we work with. The first is the web application, and the second is strictly for SpecFlow tests. Having two instance

Answer 1

With MSTest v2, you can´t use mstest. You can use vstest.console.exe instead.

Example:

vstest.console.exe "Automation.SpecFlow\bin\Release\Automation.SpecFlow.dll"

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/test/vstest-console-options?view=vs-2019

If you want to run all scenarios in a single feature file, then add the /trait flag:

vstest.console.exe "Automation.SpecFlow\bin\Release\Automation.SpecFlow.dll" /trait:"My Feature"

And this runs all scenarios in the feature files that begin with:

Feature: My Feature
    In order to ...
    As a ...
    I want to ...

Scenario: 1
    ...

Scenario: 2
    ...