Monthly stats: 2024 December - Increased interest in migration after SpecFlow GitHub project removed

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We think transparency is important to build a trustful open-source community, so we regularly share our usage and sustainability statistics.

You can find some statistics that we have found interesting (in parenthesis, you see the same figs for the previous months). If you are interested in any other figures, please let us know.

Statistics for December 2024

Featured:

I think many of us expected the December to be calm for Reqnroll. But on the 17th December the SpecFlow open-source project suddenly disappeared from GitHub so it became clear for many that Tricentis is not interested to continue this. It is still unknown why they have removed the GitHub project without any upfront notice (you can also mark a project "archived"), but after a few days the project re-appeared (without issues) with an end-of-life announcement by the end of the year. And indeed the project finally disappeared from GitHub on 1st of January.

Not a surprise, that the interest in the migration guide increased and in December it was the most visited documentation page with its record peeks between 18-20 December.

Usage:

• Website & Docs visitors: 3.9K (3.4K)
• Website & Docs page views: 26K (24K)
• Top 5 Docs page: Migration, Quickstart, Docs home, IDE Setup, Gherkin reference (Docs home, Quickstart, Migration, IDE Setup, Gherkin reference)
• NuGet package downloads (Reqnroll package, last 6 weeks): 312K (369K)
• NuGet package downloads compared to SpecFlow NuGet downloads (last 6 weeks): 12% (12%)
• Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by VS2022 extension: 67.3K (74.4K)
• Top 3 countries of VS2022 extension usage: United Kingdom, USA, Netherlands (United Kingdom, USA, Netherlands)
• Reqnroll projects (.NET projects executed by Reqnroll): 5932 (5248)
• Reqnroll test executions: 2.07M (2.16M)
• Reqnroll test executions per project per month: avg: 350, median: 47 (avg: 412, median: 56)

.NET Framework Usage:

The list shows the .NET Framework usage distribution of Reqnroll projects.

1. .NET 8.0: 79% (82%)
2. .NET 9.0: 9% (6%)
3. .NET 4.8: 5% (4%)
4. .NET 6.0: 5% (6%)
5. .NET 7.0: 2% (2%)

Only those frameworks are shown where the usage is above 1%.

Test Execution Framework Usage:

The list shows the test execution framework usage distribution of Reqnroll projects.

1. NUnit: 40% (40%)
2. xUnit: 32% (32%)
3. MsTest: 28% (28%)

CI/CD Server Usage:

The list shows the CI/CD server usage distribution of Reqnroll projects that were executed in CI.

1. Azure Pipelines: 71% (71%)
2. GitHub Actions: 10% (9%)
3. GitLab CI/CD: 10% (10%)
4. Jenkins: 5% (5%)
5. TeamCity: 3% (4%)
6. Atlassian Bamboo: 1% (1%)
7. BrowserStack: 1% (0%)

Sustainability:

• Active paid subscriptions: 1 (1)
• Sponsors: Gold: 1 (Spec Solutions), Silver: 1 (Info Support), Supporters: 4 (1/1/4)
• Yearly budget: ~$2200 ($2200)
• My time: 19hrs (39hrs)