The Best way to use table with Specflow - selenium

Question

My question is about the best practices with BDD(Specflow).
In the webapplication that i'm testing, I have to write a feature about creation of a contract.
To create a contract, user must pass By 8 Tabs and for each tab user will enter more than 15 values (Min 4, max 40 values).
My proposition is:
Given Go to the screen "Contrats"
And Click on the button "New contract"
When Enter in Tab1
| Field1 | Field2 | Field3 |
| -----------| ------------| ----------|
And Click on the Next button
And Enter in Tab2
| Field1 | Field2 |
| --------------- | -----------|
And Click on the Next button
And Enter in Tab3
| Field1 | Field2 | Field 3| Field4 | Field5 | Field6 |Field7 |
| -------| -------| ------ | -------- | --------- | -------| ----------------|
And Click on the Next button
And Enter in Tab4
| Field1 | Field2 | Field 3| Field4 | Field5 | Field6 |Field7 | Field8|
| -------| -------| ------ | -------- | --------- | -------| ----------------| ------|
And Click on the Next button
And Enter in Tab5
| Field1 | Field2 | Field 3| Field4 | Field5 | Field6
| -------| -------| ------ | -------- | --------- | -------|
And Click on the Next button
And Enter in Tab6
| Field1 | Field2 | Field3 |
| -----------| ------------| ----------|
And Click on the Next button
And Click on the Next button
And Cliquer sur Oui
And Enter in Tab7
| Field1 | Field2 |
| -----------| ------------|
And Click on confirm enregistration
And Save the contract reference and close the popup
And Click on button No
Then Redirecting the Summary tab
So in this Case for each Tab i must have model for exemple:
public class Tab1{
public string Field1 { get; set; }
public string Field2 { get; set; }
public string Field3 { get; set; }
}
Question:
In this feature i'm try to enter only the mandatory fields.
But in other features i have to enter sometimes more fields so in Tab1 I will enter for example 37 fields.
What I can do in this case:
1-
Create another model?: I will have too much models
2-
Create just one model with max of fields, and for the first situation I will set an empty value for other fiels (Field4-> Field37) : Too much attributes for a model.
3- for each bloc of Tab1 we create Class like :
public Class Tab1{
public Bloc1 Field1 { get; set; }
public Bloc2 Field2 { get; set; }
public Bloc3 Field3 { get; set; }
public class Bloc1{
public string Field1 { get; set; }
public string Field2 { get; set; }
public string Field3 { get; set; }
}
public Class Bloc2{
public string Field1 { get; set; }
public string Field2 { get; set; }
public string Field3 { get; set; }
}
.
.
.
}
But with this solution How I can write my feature?!

Answer 1

Even I faced the same issue with my test data. I need to pass 20 to 30 fields for each test as it contains end to end workflow. It would be very difficult if you use tables as you need create table class for each set of input values (in your case Tab1, Tab2, etc.)
You can use Scenatio Outline rather than Scenario to pass the input values. See below example:
# Basic Login check
# Verifies whether user is able to login or not
Scenario Outline: REG - Login Check
Given I have logged in using "<username>" and "<password>"
When I should see my username after login
Then I will logout of Echo
Examples:
| username | password |Field1|Field2|Field3|Field4|Field5|
| lee kirby-walker | LKirby-Walker10* |input1|input2|input3|input4|input5|
| sample 1 | pwd1 |input6|input7|input8|input9|input10|
You can pass any number of rows of test data to the test. But it create those many test cases in VS. These test data values will be passed to the step definition methods as parameters.
See below step definition for step Given I have logged in using "username" and "password"
[Given(#"I have logged in using ""(.*)"" and ""(.*)""")]
public void LogInUsingUsernameAndPassword(string userName, string password)
{
ScenarioContext.Current["userName"] = userName;
UserHomePage = LoginPage.Login(userName, password);
Reporter.ReportNote(string.Format("User {0} logged in successfully", userName), Status.Pass);
}
But with Scenario Outline you must use Examples otherwise specflow will throw an error.