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Different execution speed in Cucumber and Specflow


I am new in the software testing domain and I had a question regarding the execution speed of the test cases. I created some test cases using Cucumber(Java language) and Specflow (C# language), where Cucumber is run in Katalon Studio and Specflow is run in Visual Studio.

However, when executing these test cases, I get different results in terms of executing speed. For example, running a test case for a specific feature in Cucumber takes 30 seconds, while in Specflow for the same feature it takes 8 seconds.

May I ask you what are some factors that affects the executing speed of the test cases?

Thank you all in advance!


Solution

  • It is not easy to pin down what is the main factor affecting test case speed. It could be any of the following (and maybe more):

    • hardware (RAM, CPU)
    • network speed
    • programming languages underneath the test framework (C#, Java, Groovy)
    • frameworks themselves (Cucumber vs Specflow, Katalon vs Visual Studio)