Available Containers & Registrations

Global Container

The global container captures global services for test execution and the step definition, hook and transformation discovery result (i.e. what step definitions you have).

  • IRuntimeConfigurationProvider

  • ITestRunnerManager

  • IStepFormatter

  • ITestTracer

  • ITraceListener

  • ITraceListenerQueue

  • IErrorProvider

  • IRuntimeBindingSourceProcessor

  • IRuntimeBindingRegistryBuilder

  • IBindingRegistry

  • IBindingFactory

  • IStepDefinitionRegexCalculator

  • IBindingInvoker

  • IStepDefinitionSkeletonProvider

  • ISkeletonTemplateProvider

  • IStepTextAnalyzer

  • IRuntimePluginLoader

  • IBindingAssemblyLoader

  • IBindingInstanceResolver

  • RuntimePlugins

    • RegisterGlobalDependencies- Event

    • CustomizeGlobalDependencies- Event

Test Thread Container

> Note: Parent Container is the Global Container

The test thread container captures the services and state for executing scenarios on a particular test thread. For parallel test execution, multiple test runner containers are created, one for each thread.

  • ITestRunner

  • IContextManager

  • ITestExecutionEngine

  • IStepArgumentTypeConverter

  • IStepDefinitionMatchService

  • ITraceListener

  • ITestTracer

  • RuntimePlugins

    • CustomizeTestThreadDependencies- Event

Feature Container

> Note: Parent Container is the Test Thread Container

The feature container captures a feature’s execution state. It is disposed after the feature is executed.

  • FeatureContext (also available from the test thread container through IContextManager)

  • [RuntimePlugins]

    • CustomizeFeatureDependencies- Event

Scenario Container

> Note: Parent Container is the Test Thread Container

The scenario container captures the state of a scenario execution. It is disposed after the scenario is executed.

  • (step definition classes)

  • (dependencies of the step definition classes, aka context injection)

  • ScenarioContext (also available from the Test Thread Container through IContextManager)

  • [RuntimePlugins]

    • CustomizeScenarioDependencies- Event