SpecFlow transition between steps takes too much time

Question

We use SpecFlow and Selenium to check that some popup is shown with some expected text.

The problem is that verification contains verification of visibility and content of popup. But the popup is shown for 5 seconds(this time can't be increased because it's hardcoded) and transition between steps in SpecFlow takes so much time that when it reaches verification of popup's visibility the popup already disappeared.

Has anybody faced with similar problem? Are there any ways to improve performance of SpecFlow in this case: cache, custom generator or something else? Or maybe we can fix it from Selenium side?

Notes:

1. On our CI server we have no such issue
2. We use Scoped bindings basically with Tag-option
3. We can't divide verification of visibility and content into different steps because it's very frequent use-case in our scenarios
4. Version of SpecFlow is 1.9.0, NUnit - 2.6.4, SpecFlow.NUnit - 1.1.1, Selenium - 2.53.1

Answer 1

We (SpecFlow Team) are not aware that the transition between steps take so much time. I use SpecFlow on a daily basis and I do not have these effects.

So it has probably something to do with your setup.

• Do you have some [BeforeStep]/[AfterStep] hooks that are executed for every step?
• Is your Selenium query to slow on your local machines?

I would suggest that you open an issue on https://github.com/techtalk/SpecFlow about it. There we could also easier share detail infos and files.