Below are some statistics we found interesting (in parentheses, you can see the figures for the previous month). If you are interested in any other figures, please let us know.

Detailed Statistics for February 2026

Usage

• Website & Docs visitors: 7.8K (7.0K)
• Website & Docs page views: 38K (37K)
• Top 5 Docs pages: Docs Home, Quickstart, Gherkin reference, SpecFlow Migration, IDE Setup (Quickstart, Docs Home, SpecFlow Migration, Gherkin reference, IDE Setup)
• NuGet package downloads (Reqnroll package, last 6 weeks): 2.11M (2.13M)
• NuGet package downloads compared to SpecFlow NuGet downloads (based on last 6 weeks download): 96% (99%)
• Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by VS extension: 418K (393K)
• Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by Rider extension: 5.8K (5.3K)
• Upgrades to the latest VS extension: 11.8K (12.9K)
• Installations of VS extension (all versions, without upgrades): 108K (105K)
• Top 3 countries (from VS extension usage): India, USA, United Kingdom (India, USA, United Kingdom)
• Reqnroll projects (.NET projects executed by Reqnroll): 28K (26K)
• Reqnroll test executions: 13.1M (12.4M)
• Reqnroll test executions per project per month: avg: 468, median: 43 (avg: 478, median: 47)
• Ratio of CI/CD executions: 45% (46%)

.NET Framework Usage

The list shows the .NET Framework usage distribution of Reqnroll projects.

1. .NET 8.0: 57% (61%)
2. .NET 10.0: 21% (15%)
3. .NET 9.0: 11% (13%)
4. .NET 4.8: 8% (7%)
5. .NET 6.0: 2% (2%)

Only frameworks with usage above 1% are shown.

Test Execution Framework Usage

The list shows the test execution framework usage distribution of Reqnroll projects.

1. NUnit: 43% (45%)
2. xUnit: 30% (29%)
3. MsTest: 22% (23%)
4. xUnit v3: 4.3% (2.5%)
5. TUnit: 0.3% (0.3%)

CI/CD Server Usage

The list shows the CI/CD server usage distribution of Reqnroll projects that were executed in CI.

1. Azure Pipelines: 68% (68%)
2. GitHub Actions: 12% (11%)
3. GitLab CI: 7% (7%)
4. Jenkins: 6% (6%)
5. TeamCity: 4% (4%)
6. Atlassian Bamboo: 2% (2%)
7. BrowserStack: 1% (1%)
8. Bitbucket Pipelines: 1% (1%)
9. Octopus Deploy: 1% (1%)

Formatters

The new reporting infrastructure (called formatters) has been introduced with the v3 release.

• HTML reports generated: 241K / 974 projects (200K / 799)
• Message reports generated: 78K / 283 projects (61K / 245)
• Expressium reports generated: 16K / 90 projects (12K / 78)
• Ratio of projects used formatters: 4.8% (4.4%)

Visual Studio version usage

1. Visual Studio 2022: 69% (75%)
   • Most used version: 17.14 (17.14)
   • Oldest version used, by at least 1%: 17.10 (17.10)
2. Visual Studio 2026: 30% (25%)
   • Most used version: 18.2 (18.1)
   • Oldest version used, by at least 1%: VS2026 preview (VS2026 preview)

Sustainability

• Active paid subscriptions: 3 (3)
• Sponsors: Gold: 1 (Spec Solutions), Silver: 2 (Info Support, LambdaTest), Supporters: 4 (1/2/4)
• Yearly budget: ~$2800 ($2800)
• My time: 9hrs (60hrs)

📢 I encourage everyone to invite contributors for a coffee 🍵. That could help pay our hosting bills or even enable us to organize an in-person design workshop to better align our goals (and drink those coffees, of course. Maybe a beer 🍺 too…). Become a sponsor.

Below are some statistics we found interesting (in parentheses, you can see the figures for the previous month). If you are interested in any other figures, please let us know.

Detailed Statistics for January 2026

Usage

• Website & Docs visitors: 7.0K (7.1K)
• Website & Docs page views: 37K (37K)
• Top 5 Docs pages: Quickstart, Docs Home, SpecFlow Migration, Gherkin reference, IDE Setup (Quickstart, Docs Home, SpecFlow Migration, Gherkin reference, IDE Setup)
• NuGet package downloads (Reqnroll package, last 6 weeks): 2.13M (1.99M)
• NuGet package downloads compared to SpecFlow NuGet downloads (based on last 6 weeks download): 99% (84%)
• Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by VS extension: 393K (352K)
• Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by Rider extension: 5.3K (5.0K)
• Upgrades to the latest VS extension: 12.9K (6.1K)
• Installations of VS extension (all versions, without upgrades): 105K (87.4K)
• Top 3 countries (from VS extension usage): India, USA, United Kingdom (India, USA, United Kingdom)
• Reqnroll projects (.NET projects executed by Reqnroll): 26K (24K)
• Reqnroll test executions: 12.4M (11.3M)
• Reqnroll test executions per project per month: avg: 478, median: 47 (avg: 469, median: 46)
• Ratio of CI/CD executions: 46% (46%)

.NET Framework Usage

The list shows the .NET Framework usage distribution of Reqnroll projects.

1. .NET 8.0: 61% (64%)
2. .NET 10.0: 15% (9%)
3. .NET 9.0: 13% (15%)
4. .NET 4.8: 7% (9%)
5. .NET 6.0: 2% (3%)

Only frameworks with usage above 1% are shown.

Test Execution Framework Usage

The list shows the test execution framework usage distribution of Reqnroll projects.

1. NUnit: 45% (45%)
2. xUnit: 29% (29%)
3. MsTest: 23% (24%)
4. xUnit v3: 2.5% (1.6%)
5. TUnit: 0.3% (0.2%)

CI/CD Server Usage

The list shows the CI/CD server usage distribution of Reqnroll projects that were executed in CI.

1. Azure Pipelines: 68% (67%)
2. GitHub Actions: 11% (10%)
3. GitLab CI: 7% (8%)
4. Jenkins: 6% (6%)
5. TeamCity: 4% (4%)
6. Atlassian Bamboo: 2% (2%)
7. BrowserStack: 1% (1%)
8. Bitbucket Pipelines: 1% (1%)
9. Octopus Deploy: 1% (1%)

Formatters

The new reporting infrastructure (called formatters) has been introduced with the v3 release.

• HTML reports generated: 200K / 799 projects (157K / 751)
• Message reports generated: 61K / 245 projects (54K / 191)
• Expressium reports generated: 12K / 78 projects (7.3K / 73)
• Ratio of projects used formatters: 4.4% (4.2%)

Visual Studio version usage

1. Visual Studio 2022: 75% (84%)
   • Most used version: 17.14 (17.14)
   • Oldest version used, by at least 1%: 17.10 (17.10)
2. Visual Studio 2026: 25% (16%)
   • Most used version: 18.1 (18.0)
   • Oldest version used, by at least 1%: VS2026 preview (VS2026 preview)

Sustainability

• Active paid subscriptions: 3 (3)
• Sponsors: Gold: 1 (Spec Solutions), Silver: 2 (Info Support, LambdaTest), Supporters: 4 (1/2/4)
• Yearly budget: ~$2800 ($2800)
• My time: 60hrs (30hrs)

📢 I encourage everyone to invite contributors for a coffee 🍵. That could help pay our hosting bills or even enable us to organize an in-person design workshop to better align our goals (and drink those coffees, of course. Maybe a beer 🍺 too…). Become a sponsor.

Below are some statistics we found interesting (in parentheses, you can see the figures for the previous month). If you are interested in any other figures, please let us know.

Detailed Statistics for December 2025

Usage

• Website & Docs visitors: 7.1K (8.3K)
• Website & Docs page views: 37K (42K)
• Top 5 Docs pages: Quickstart, Docs Home, SpecFlow Migration, Gherkin reference, IDE Setup (Quickstart, Docs Home, SpecFlow Migration, Gherkin reference, IDE Setup)
• NuGet package downloads (Reqnroll package, last 6 weeks): N/A (1.99M)
• NuGet package downloads compared to SpecFlow NuGet downloads (based on “per day average”): N/A (84%)
• Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by VS extension: 352K (388K)
• Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by Rider extension: 5.0K (6.95K)
• Upgrades to the latest VS extension: 6.1K (14.3K)
• Installations of VS extension (all versions, without upgrades): N/A (87.4K)
• Top 3 countries (from VS extension usage): India, USA, United Kingdom (India, USA, United Kingdom)
• Reqnroll projects (.NET projects executed by Reqnroll): 24K (24K)
• Reqnroll test executions: 11.3M (11.4M)
• Reqnroll test executions per project per month: avg: 469, median: 46 (avg: 478, median: 48)
• Ratio of CI/CD executions: 46% (45%)

.NET Framework Usage

The list shows the .NET Framework usage distribution of Reqnroll projects.

1. .NET 8.0: 64% (66%)
2. .NET 9.0: 15% (17%)
3. .NET 4.8: 9% (9%)
4. .NET 10.0: 9% (4%)
5. .NET 6.0: 3% (3%)

Only frameworks with usage above 1% are shown.

Test Execution Framework Usage

The list shows the test execution framework usage distribution of Reqnroll projects.

1. NUnit: 45% (45%)
2. xUnit: 29% (29%)
3. MsTest: 24% (24%)
4. xUnit v3: 1.6% (1.5%)
5. TUnit: 0.2% (0.2%)

CI/CD Server Usage

The list shows the CI/CD server usage distribution of Reqnroll projects that were executed in CI.

1. Azure Pipelines: 67% (67%)
2. GitHub Actions: 11% (10%)
3. GitLab CI: 7% (8%)
4. Jenkins: 6% (6%)
5. TeamCity: 4% (4%)
6. Atlassian Bamboo: 2% (2%)
7. BrowserStack: 1% (1%)
8. Octopus Deploy: 1% (1%)
9. Bitbucket Pipelines: 1% (1%)

Formatters

The new reporting infrastructure (called formatters) has been introduced with the v3 release.

• HTML reports generated: 157K / 751 projects (136K / 648)
• Message reports generated: 54K / 191 projects (36.5K / 192)
• Expressium reports generated: 7.3K / 73 projects (3.9K / 50)
• Ratio of projects used formatters: 4.2% (3.7%)

Visual Studio version usage

1. Visual Studio 2022: 84% (N/A)
   • Most used version: 17.14 (N/A)
   • Oldest version used, by at least 1%: 17.10 (N/A)
2. Visual Studio 2026: 16% (N/A)
   • Most used version: 18.0 (N/A)
   • Oldest version used, by at least 1%: VS2026 preview (N/A)

Sustainability

• Active paid subscriptions: 3 (3)
• Sponsors: Gold: 1 (Spec Solutions), Silver: 2 (Info Support, LambdaTest), Supporters: 4 (1/2/4)
• Yearly budget: ~$2800 ($2800)
• My time: 30hrs (36hrs)

📢 I encourage everyone to invite contributors for a coffee 🍵. That could help pay our hosting bills or even enable us to organize an in-person design workshop to better align our goals (and drink those coffees, of course. Maybe a beer 🍺 too…). Become a sponsor.

This release focuses on build optimization, better file handling flexibility, and improved compatibility with the latest testing frameworks.

What’s new in v3.3

Improvements

• Improved build performance: Up-to-date checking for feature files has been improved, resulting in faster builds. Code-behind files are now deleted on clean or rebuild for better incremental build support.
• Intermediate output folder support: Feature code-behind files can now be stored in the intermediate output folder (obj folder) by setting the ReqnrollUseIntermediateOutputPathForCodeBehind MSBuild property to true.
• Linked feature files support: Reqnroll now supports linked feature files (files used from outside of the project folder). The ReqnrollUseIntermediateOutputPathForCodeBehind flag must be enabled to use this feature.
• Formatter variable substitution: Formatters’ configured OutputFilePath can now contain variable substitution parameters for build metadata, timestamp, and environment variables. See the formatter configuration documentation for details.
• Updated testing framework support: NUnit dependencies are updated to v4.4.0 in templates, and TUnit integration now supports TUnit v1.3.25 and .NET 10 SDK compatibility.
• Updated Cucumber integrations: Cucumber.HtmlFormatter updated to version 22 to support HTML reports on non-https URLs, and Cucumber.Messages updated to version 30.
• Improved packaging: Reqnroll NuGet packages have been improved for better quality and compatibility.
• Updated behavior: NotImplementedException thrown by tests is no longer treated as a “pending” outcome, reverting to v2 behavior.

Bug Fixes

This release also includes several bug fixes related to stability and error handling.

Full changelog

For a complete list of all changes, please see the v3.3.0 changelog on GitHub.

If you encounter any issues, please report them on GitHub.

Thank you to all contributors for this release! 🙏

Below are some statistics we found interesting (in parentheses, you can see the figures for the previous month). If you are interested in any other figures, please let us know.

Detailed Statistics for November 2025

Usage

• Website & Docs visitors: 8.3K (9.2K)
• Website & Docs page views: 42K (49K)
• Top 5 Docs pages: Quickstart, Docs Home, SpecFlow Migration, Gherkin reference, IDE Setup (Quickstart, Docs Home, Gherkin reference, SpecFlow Migration, IDE Setup)
• NuGet package downloads (Reqnroll package, last 6 weeks): 1.99M (1.83M)
• NuGet package downloads compared to SpecFlow NuGet downloads (based on “per day average”): 84% (77%)
• Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by VS2022 extension: 388K (407K)
• Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by Rider extension: 6.95K (8.3K)
• Upgrades to the latest VS2022 extension: 14.3K (8.7K)
• Installations of VS2022 extension (all versions, without upgrades): 87.4K (76.4K)
• Top 3 countries (from VS2022 extension usage): India, USA, United Kingdom (USA, India, United Kingdom)
• Reqnroll projects (.NET projects executed by Reqnroll): 24K (23K)
• Reqnroll test executions: 11.4M (12.5M)
• Reqnroll test executions per project per month: avg: 478, median: 48 (avg: 538, median: 56)
• Ratio of CI/CD executions: 45% (45%)

.NET Framework Usage

The list shows the .NET Framework usage distribution of Reqnroll projects.

1. .NET 8.0: 66% (69%)
2. .NET 9.0: 17% (17%)
3. .NET 4.8: 9% (9%)
4. .NET 10.0: 4% (1%)
5. .NET 6.0: 3% (3%)
6. .NET 7.0: 1% (1%)

Only frameworks with usage above 1% are shown.

Test Execution Framework Usage

The list shows the test execution framework usage distribution of Reqnroll projects.

1. NUnit: 45% (45%)
2. xUnit: 29% (30%)
3. MsTest: 24% (24%)
4. xUnit v3: 1.5% (0.8%)
5. TUnit: 0.2% (0.3%)

CI/CD Server Usage

The list shows the CI/CD server usage distribution of Reqnroll projects that were executed in CI.

1. Azure Pipelines: 67% (66%)
2. GitHub Actions: 10% (10%)
3. Jenkins: 6% (7%)
4. GitLab CI/CD: 5% (5%)
5. TeamCity: 4% (4%)
6. GitLab CI: 3% (3%)
7. Atlassian Bamboo: 2% (2%)
8. BrowserStack: 1% (1%)
9. Bitbucket Pipelines: 1% (1%)
10. Octopus Deploy: 1% (1%)

Formatters

The new reporting infrastructure (called formatters) has been introduced with the v3 release.

• HTML reports generated: 136K / 648 projects (105.4K / 554)
• Message reports generated: 36.5K / 192 projects (22.9K / 155)
• Expressium reports generated: 3.9K / 50 projects (2.4K / 31)
• Ratio of projects used formatters: 3.7% (3.2%)

Sustainability

• Active paid subscriptions: 3 (3)
• Sponsors: Gold: 1 (Spec Solutions), Silver: 2 (Info Support, LambdaTest), Supporters: 4 (1/2/4)
• Yearly budget: ~$2800 ($2800)
• My time: 36hrs (21hrs)

📢 I encourage everyone to invite contributors for a coffee 🍵. That could help pay our hosting bills or even enable us to organize an in-person design workshop to better align our goals (and drink those coffees, of course. Maybe a beer 🍺 too…). Become a sponsor.

Below are some statistics we found interesting (in parentheses, you can see the figures for the previous month). If you are interested in any other figures, please let us know.

Detailed Statistics for October 2025

Usage

• Website & Docs visitors: 9.2K (10K)
• Website & Docs page views: 49K (55K)
• Top 5 Docs pages: Quickstart, Docs Home, Gherkin reference, SpecFlow Migration, IDE Setup (Docs Home, Quickstart, SpecFlow Migration, Gherkin reference, IDE Setup)
• NuGet package downloads (Reqnroll package, last 6 weeks): 1.83M (1.7M)
• NuGet package downloads compared to SpecFlow NuGet downloads (based on “per day average”): 77% (71%)
• Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by VS2022 extension: 407K (404K)
• Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by Rider extension: 8.3K (10K)
• Upgrades to the latest VS2022 extension: 8.7K (May: 7.6K)
• Installations of VS2022 extension (all versions, without upgrades): 76.4K (N/A)
• Top 3 countries (from VS2022 extension usage): USA, India, United Kingdom (India, USA, United Kingdom)
• Reqnroll projects (.NET projects executed by Reqnroll): 23K (22K)
• Reqnroll test executions: 12.5M (11.4M)
• Reqnroll test executions per project per month: avg: 538, median: 56 (avg: 515, median: 53)
• Ratio of CI/CD executions: 45% (45%)

.NET Framework Usage

The list shows the .NET Framework usage distribution of Reqnroll projects.

1. .NET 8.0: 69% (68%)
2. .NET 9.0: 17% (17%)
3. .NET 4.8: 9% (9%)
4. .NET 6.0: 3% (4%)
5. .NET 10.0 RC/Preview: 1% (0.2%)
6. .NET 7.0: 1% (1%)

Only frameworks with usage above 1% are shown.

Test Execution Framework Usage

The list shows the test execution framework usage distribution of Reqnroll projects.

1. NUnit: 45% (45%)
2. xUnit: 30% (30%)
3. MsTest: 24% (24%)
4. xUnit v3: 0.8% (0.1%)
5. TUnit: 0.3% (0.3%)

CI/CD Server Usage

The list shows the CI/CD server usage distribution of Reqnroll projects that were executed in CI.

1. Azure Pipelines: 66% (66%)
2. GitHub Actions: 10% (10%)
3. Jenkins: 7% (7%)
4. GitLab CI/CD: 5% (6%)
5. TeamCity: 4% (4%)
6. GitLab CI: 3% (2%)
7. Atlassian Bamboo: 2% (2%)
8. BrowserStack: 1% (1%)
9. Bitbucket Pipelines: 1% (1%)
10. Octopus Deploy: 1% (1%)

Formatters

The new reporting infrastructure (called formatters) has been introduced with the v3 release.

• HTML reports generated: 105.4K / 554 projects (61.7K / 452)
• Message reports generated: 22.9K / 155 projects (17.2K / 124)
• Expressium reports generated: 2.4K / 31 projects (0.6K / 15)
• Ratio of projects used formatters: 3.2% (2.7%)

Sustainability

• Active paid subscriptions: 3 (3)
• Sponsors: Gold: 1 (Spec Solutions), Silver: 2 (Info Support, LambdaTest), Supporters: 4 (1/2/4)
• Yearly budget: ~$2800 ($2800)
• My time: 21hrs (48hrs)

📢 I encourage everyone to invite contributors for a coffee 🍵. That could help pay our hosting bills or even enable us to organize an in-person design workshop to better align our goals (and drink those coffees, of course. Maybe a beer 🍺 too…). Become a sponsor.

A new version of the Reqnroll Visual Studio 2022 extension has been released: v2025.2.359 (Release notes).

If you have installed an earlier version of the Reqnroll Visual Studio extension, it will by default automatically update to the latest version. You can also install the extension by searching for “Reqnroll” in the Visual Studio “Manage Extensions…” dialog. Please find the detailed instructions in Visual Studio 2022 setup guide.

What’s new

Improvements

The release includes several useful improvements:

• Updated ‘New Project’ wizard: The wizard now uses the latest versions of supported test frameworks and .NET frameworks, including .NET 10 support.
• xUnit v3 support: You can now select xUnit v3 as a test framework when creating new projects.
• Enhanced table formatting: The ‘Format Document’ command now right-aligns numeric values in tables by default, improving readability. If you prefer left alignment, you can override this by setting gherkin_table_cell_right_align_numeric_content = false in your .editorconfig file within a [*.feature] section.

Bug fixes

The release also addresses several issues:

• Fixed ambiguous steps being reported when a definition matches via more than one tag
• Fixed incorrect binding language detection in the Visual Studio extension
• Fixed the ‘New Project’ wizard to prevent specifying project names that result in invalid namespaces for generated code-behind files

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders support

The Reqnroll Visual Studio extension also supports the new Visual Studio 2026 Insiders version, which is a preview version of Visual Studio 2026. This ensures you can use the latest Reqnroll features even if you’re testing the upcoming Visual Studio release.

Feedback

Reqnroll is free, but we provide dedicated support through our paid subscription packages. Purchasing them will also support the sustainability of the open-source project.

If you find any issues or have ideas, please use our community support channels to report them.

📢 Please take a few minutes and help others by rating ⭐ the extension on the Visual Studio Marketplace.

The course, titled “Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) with Reqnroll”, provides over 60 minutes of content that takes you through the fundamentals of Reqnroll and how to effectively use it for BDD in your projects.

What’s covered in the tutorial?

The tutorial provides a thorough overview of both BDD concepts and practical Reqnroll usage:

• The BDD Process
  • The three stages of the BDD process
  • Discovery and Example Mapping
  • Formulation and Gherkin
  • Automation and Reqnroll
• Working with Reqnroll
  • Creating tests from scenarios
  • Improving your step definitions
  • Working with tables
  • Hooks and tags
  • Implementing acceptance tests for UI and API
  • Continuous Integration

The course uses a real-world example of a loan application processing service for an online banking application, following the feature from initial request through testing to release readiness.

About the instructor

Bas Dijkstra is an independent test automation consultant and trainer with a solid background in the field. He has delivered test automation training to dozens of companies and he is a regular speaker at conferences. Bas is also the developer of RestAssured.Net, a popular library for testing HTTP APIs in C#.

Get started today!

The course is completely self-paced and available for free.

👉 Enroll now: Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) with Reqnroll

Thank you, Bas!

Thanks to Bas Dijkstra for creating and sharing this with the community. Making this tutorial freely available is a great contribution that will help many developers and testers learn Reqnroll. 🙏

If you find the tutorial helpful, please consider sharing it with others who might benefit from it.

This is a focused update that addresses some important compatibility and workflow improvements.

What’s new in v3.2

Improvements

• Async step definition snippets: Step definition snippets (also known as skeletons) can now be generated as async methods. You can enable this by setting trace/stepDefinitionSkeletonStyle to AsyncCucumberExpressionAttribute or AsyncRegexAttribute in your configuration.
• MsTest v4 support: Reqnroll now supports the latest version of MsTest (v4), ensuring you can use the most up-to-date testing framework.

Bug Fixes

This release also includes a bug fix related to security vulnerabilities of some dependencies.

Full changelog

For a complete list of all changes, please see the v3.2.0 changelog on GitHub.

If you encounter any issues, please report them on GitHub.

Thank you to all contributors for this release! 🙏

About the Book

This is the first BDD book that, while remaining tool-agnostic, uses Reqnroll examples to illustrate automation concepts. The book is structured in three comprehensive parts:

1. Discovery - Understanding BDD concepts and how to better understand requirements for a more seamless development flow
2. Formulation - Writing understandable and maintainable BDD scenarios in Gherkin using Given, When, and Then keywords
3. Automation Patterns - Core BDD automation concepts and patterns that improve your BDD automation solution

Preview and Special Offer

The book is currently in preview state with the first 5 chapters available (more comes soon!). Manning is offering an introductory sale with 50% discount for early adopters.

Shameless plug alert: One of the authors is me (Gáspár Nagy), so this is definitely a shameless plug! 😊

Support Reqnroll

When you purchase the book through this post: Effective Behavior-Driven Development at Manning, the commission earned will be donated to the Reqnroll open-source project.