How to get the current executing step information in Specflow

Question

We are trying to take screenshots for each step.

Everything works fine. But we are not able to correlate the screenshots to the steps which created them.

Wha

Answer 1

I'm a bit late to the party, but this method will return a string that contains the currently running step text:

private static string GetCurrentPositionText()
    {
        int currentPositionText = 0;
        try
        {
            var frames = new StackTrace(true).GetFrames();
            if (frames != null)
            {
                var featureFileFrame = frames.FirstOrDefault(f =>
                                                             f.GetFileName() != null &&
                                                             f.GetFileName().EndsWith(".feature"));

                if (featureFileFrame != null)
                {
                    var lines = File.ReadAllLines(featureFileFrame.GetFileName());
                    const int frameSize = 20;
                    int currentLine = featureFileFrame.GetFileLineNumber() - 1;
                    int minLine = Math.Max(0, currentLine - frameSize);
                    int maxLine = Math.Min(lines.Length - 1, currentLine + frameSize);

                    for (int lineNo = currentLine - 1; lineNo >= minLine; lineNo--)
                    {
                        if (lines[lineNo].TrimStart().StartsWith("Scenario:"))
                        {
                            minLine = lineNo + 1;
                            break;
                        }
                    }

                    for (int lineNo = currentLine + 1; lineNo <= maxLine; lineNo++)
                    {
                        if (lines[lineNo].TrimStart().StartsWith("Scenario:"))
                        {
                            maxLine = lineNo - 1;
                            break;
                        }
                    }

                    for (int lineNo = minLine; lineNo <= maxLine; lineNo++)
                    {
                        if (lineNo == currentLine)
                        {
                            currentPositionText = lineNo - minLine;
                            return String.Format("->" + lines[lineNo]);
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            Debug.WriteLine(ex, "GetCurrentPositionText");
        }

        return String.Format("(Unable to detect current step)");
    }

Taken from a post Gaspar Nagy made some time ago when a similar question was asked, and modified slightly to only return the string of the current step.