Compatibility

Supported Azure DevOps systems

SpecSync for Azure DevOps might work with other Azure DevOps installations as well, but it has been tested with the following configurations:

• Azure DevOps Services (Visual Studio Team Services, VSTS, VSO)

• Azure DevOps Server 2022 (Version 19.*)

• Azure DevOps Server 2020 (Version 18.*)

• Azure DevOps Server 2019 (Version 17.*, Dev17.*) — up to SpecSync v3.4

• Team Foundation Server 2018 (Version 16.*) — up to SpecSync v3.4

• Team Foundation Server 2017 (Version 15.*) — up to SpecSync v3.4

• Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 3 (Version 14.*) — up to SpecSync v2.1

• Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 1 (Version 12.*) — up to SpecSync v1.3

The Azure DevOps team deprecated TLS 1.0/1.1 access for Azure DevOps Services (cloud version). As the Azure DevOps client library SpecSync uses for v2.1 or earlier uses TLS 1.1 by default you will get an error. To be able to use SpecSync v2.1 and earlier versions with Azure DevOps Services, you need to set the remote/securityProtocol setting to Tls12.

To use SpecSync with localized Azure DevOps processes (where the names of the work item types are translated), the name of the Test Case and the Test Suite work item has to be specified in the remote/azureDevOps/testsRelationName and remote/azureDevOps/relatedRelationName configuration settings.

Supported operating systems and platforms

SpecSync is supported on Windows, Linux and MacOS operating systems. It can be installed as a standalone tool or as a .NET tool. Please check Installation & Setup for details on which installation option is available on the different target systems.

SpecSync does not use Log4J and therefore it is not affected by the vulnerability CVE-2021-44228.

Supported BDD tools

SpecSync can synchronize any scenarios that are written in Gherkin format. Gherkin format is used by many tools in many platforms, like Cucumber, Cucumber JVM, Cucumber.js, Behat, Behave, SpecFlow and also Reqnroll. Please refer to the Getting started for detailed instructions how to setup SpecSync with the different BDD tools.

Supported test result formats

BDD Tool	Runner	Extension	Format specifier
SpecFlow/Reqnroll	MsTest	TRX	trx
SpecFlow/Reqnroll	NUnit	TRX	trx
SpecFlow/Reqnroll	xUnit	TRX	trx
SpecFlow	SpecFlow+ Runner	TRX	trx
SpecFlow	NUnit	XML	specFlowNUnitXml
SpecFlow	NUnit v2	XML	specFlowNUnit2Xml
Reqnroll	NUnit	XML	reqnrollNUnitXml
Reqnroll	NUnit v2	XML	reqnrollNUnit2Xml
Reqnroll	Cucumber Messages output	NDJSON	cucumberMessagesNdjson
Cucumber (Java, JavaScript, Ruby)	json formatter	JSON	cucumberJson
Cucumber (Java, JavaScript, Ruby)	message formatter	NDJSON	cucumberMessagesNdjson
Cucumber Java	JUnit	XML	cucumberJavaJUnitXml
Cucumber Java	Surefire	XML	cucumberJavaSurefireXml
Cucumber.js	cucumber-junit-formatter	XML	cucumberJsJUnitXml
Cypress		JSON	cypressCucumberJson
Jest	jest-cucumber	XML	jestCucumberXml
Python Behave		XML	pythonBehaveXml
PyTest.BDD		XML	pyTestBddXml
Cucumber Studio (Hiptest)		JSON	hiptestJson

The test results can also be re-published from a Test Run, published by any supported TRX-based tool using the testRunTrx format specifier. See How to publish test results from pipelines using the VSTest task for details.

Other test result formats are added on request. Please contact support.

Supported SpecFlow versions

Synchronizing scenarios from SpecFlow projects and publishing test results is supported for any SpecFlow versions.

Supported Reqnroll versions

Synchronizing scenarios from Reqnroll projects and publishing test results is supported for any Reqnroll versions.

Supported SpecFlow versions for test-suite based execution

To be able to use the legacy test-suite based execution method, a special SpecFlow plugin has to be used that is specific to a particular SpecFlow version. This plugin is provided for the following SpecFlow versions.

• SpecFlow v4.0 (up to SpecSync v3.4)

• SpecFlow v3.9 (from SpecSync v3.2.6)

• SpecFlow v3.8 (up to SpecSync v3.4)

• SpecFlow v3.7 (up to SpecSync v3.4)

• SpecFlow v3.6 (up to SpecSync v3.4)

• SpecFlow v3.5 (up to SpecSync v3.4)

• SpecFlow v3.4 (up to SpecSync v3.4)

• SpecFlow v3.3 (up to SpecSync v3.4)

• SpecFlow v3.1 (up to SpecSync v3.4)

• SpecFlow v3.0 (up to SpecSync v3.3)

• SpecFlow v2.4 (up to SpecSync v3.2)

• SpecFlow v2.3 (up to SpecSync v3.2)

• SpecFlow v2.2.1 (up to SpecSync v1.4)

For test-suite based execution, Azure DevOps supports only MsTest officially, but the plugins work also with MsTest, NUnit and xUnit.

See more details on the Support for Azure DevOps Test Plan / Test Suite based test execution page.