One of the useful capabilities within SpecFlow is for us to define hooks which starts when the feature or scenario starts and ends.

An obvious use of these is to log information about the feature or scenario – we’ll just use Debug.WriteLine to demonstrate this.

All we need to do is create a binding and then supply static methods marked with the BeforeFeature and AfterFeature attributes, which might look like this

[Binding]
public class FeatureHook
{
  [BeforeFeature]
  public static void BeforeFeature(FeatureContext featureContext)
  {
    Debug.WriteLine($"Feature starting: {featureContext.FeatureInfo.Title}");
  }

  [AfterFeature]
  public static void AfterFeature(FeatureContext featureContext)
  {
    Debug.WriteLine($"Feature ending: {featureContext.FeatureInfo.Title}");
  }
}

as you can probably guess, we can do the same with the BeforeScenario and AfterScenario attributes like this

[Binding]
public class ScenarioHook
{
  [BeforeScenario]
  public static void BeforeScenario(ScenarioContext scenarioContext)
  {
    Debug.WriteLine($"Scenario starting: {scenarioContext.ScenarioInfo.Title}");
  }

  [AfterScenario]
  public static void AfterScenario(ScenarioContext scenarioContext)
  {
    Debug.WriteLine($"Scenario ending: {scenarioContext.ScenarioInfo.Title}");
  }
}