The type 'TestContext' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework

Question

we need to access test context created by specflow project in one of the method , so we have written below code in specflow hooks.

    [BeforeScenario]
    public void BeforeScenario( microsoft.visualstudio.testtools.unittesting.TestContext  context)
    {
        InitializeSpecflow(context);
    }

InitializeSpecflow( microsoft.visualstudio.testtools.unittesting.TestContext context)
{

//Logic for context.TestName execution logic
}

but , when we pass specflow test context to method even if both test context are of same type (i.e microsoft.visualstudio.testtools.unittesting.TestContext )
it gives error as "The type 'TestContext' is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework"

Answer 1

Hi, @vrushali

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

You can try to add this nuget package: Microsoft.UnitTestFramework.Extensions

Sincerely,
Peng
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