Description
NSpec is a BDD (Behavior Driven Development) testing framework of the xSpec (Context/Specification) flavor for .NET. NSpec is intended to drive development by specifying behavior within a declared context or scenario. NSpec is heavily inspired by RSpec and Mocha.
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NSpec
NSpec is a BDD (Behavior Driven Development) testing framework of the xSpec (Context/Specification) flavor for .NET. NSpec is intended to drive development by specifying behavior within a declared context or scenario. NSpec is heavily inspired by RSpec and Mocha.
Documentation
See nspec.org for instructions on getting started and documentation.
Examples
See under [examples/](./examples):
[DotNetTestSample](./examples/DotNetTestSample)
Sample solution showing how to setup a NSpec test project targeting .NET Core[NetFrameworkSample](./examples/NetFrameworkSample)
Sample solution showing how to setup a NSpec test project targeting .NET Framework
Also, there are a couple of projects under [sln/test/Samples/](./sln/test/Samples) path, [SampleSpecs](./sln/test/Samples/SampleSpecs) and [SampleSpecsFocus](./sln/test/Samples/SampleSpecsFocus). Those are part of main NSpec solution, needed when testing NSpec itself, and contain several mixed examples of NSpec test classes.
Breaking changes
To check for potential breaking changes, see [BREAKING-CHANGES.md](./BREAKING-CHANGES.md).
Contributing
See [contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md) doc page.
License
[MIT](./license.txt)
Credits
NSpec is written by Matt Florence and Amir Rajan. It's shaped and benefited by hard work from our contributors.
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the NSpec README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.