Question

Is there a way to mark a Specflow test with an “Explicit” attribute? I am aware that a test can be marked with the “Ignore” attribute via the use of the special tag @ignore.

Answer 1

Maybe.

If you look at the generated xxx.feature.cs, you will see that it is defined as

public partial class xxx{...

So you can add another file to your project xxx.partial.cs that contains the other part of your partial definition.

And that’s the end of what I know, now for you might be able to do.

In theory you could use the partial class definition and modify it, to make it abstract. Then you could add a derived class where you override the test in question, this would have to be a new as we can’t use virtual in the xxx, and add your [Explicit] there.

I have no idea if this will work. You could have all sorts of issues with the abstract not taking, or the test attributes disappearing on the derived class, etc. But maybe it might get you going.

P.S. I’m also not sure this is anything near to good practice. 🙂