Monthly stats: 2024 October - More than 4700 projects use Reqnroll!

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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 October 2024

Featured:

For this month, I analyzed our statistical data a bit more in dept to find some interesting details on how people use Reqnroll. Some of them (project count, test execution framework, CI/CD server) will be included to the stats from now on.

I don't think I have found anything that totally surprised me, but it is good to know that there are already 4700 unique .NET project that uses Reqnroll. Also interesting to see that most of the projects that use CI/CD is running on Azure DevOps Pipelines. The distribution of test execution frameworks (MsTest, NUnit, xUnit) is pretty balanced, but NUnit is used the most.

From the Visual Studio extension usage, we also get some statistics about the size of the project. Here we can see that the biggest project has more than 3000 feature files, where the average is 59. We also collect information about how many step definitions a project has, where the median is 194, but here we also observed extreme large numbers, the maximum is above 77000! This is probably a measurement problem.

Based on the stats it seems that everyone used Reqnroll with C# (not VB.NET).

Usage:

• Website & Docs* visitors: 1.0K* (0.9K*)
• Website & Docs* page views: 2.4K* (2.1K*)
• Top 5 Docs page: N/A* (Migration, Quickstart, Docs home, Install & Setup, IDE Setup)
• NuGet package downloads (Reqnroll package, last 6 weeks): 348.2K (319.8K)
• NuGet package downloads compared to SpecFlow NuGet downloads (last 6 weeks): 12% (11%)
• Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by VS2022 extension: 70.0K (57.9K)
• Top 3 countries of VS2022 extension usage: United Kingdom, USA, Netherlands (United Kingdom, USA, Netherlands)
• Reqnroll projects (.NET projects executed by Reqnroll): 4705 (n/a)
• Reqnroll test executions: 2.21M (1.49M)

* The stat gathering of the docs site stopped in August, so the numbers only include the website stats until end of October.

.NET Framework Usage:

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

Note: In previous stats we presented the distribution of the executions (e.g. how many percent of the executions uses .NET 8.0).

1. .NET 8.0: 85% (n/a)
2. .NET 6.0: 9% (n/a)
3. .NET 4.8: 4% (n/a)
4. .NET 7.0: 2% (n/a)

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% (n/a)
2. xUnit: 32% (n/a)
3. MsTest: 28% (n/a)

CI/CD Server Usage:

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

1. Azure Pipelines: 70% (n/a)
2. GitLab CI/CD: 11% (n/a)
3. GitHub Actions: 9% (n/a)
4. Jenkins: 4% (n/a)
5. TeamCity: 4% (n/a)

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: 45hrs (16hrs)