Monthly stats: 2024 November - .NET 9.0 comes up!

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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 November 2024

Featured:

This is the first month, when .NET 9.0 got a momentum in our stats and it started with 6% distribution among the projects that use Reqnroll. This means that there are more than 350 projects tested with Reqnroll on .NET 9.0. This is definitely an important feedback on the necessity of the active maintenance of Reqnroll. If you would like to contribute to this, please also consider our sponsorship options.

In November we can see moderate growth on nearly all figures. Between August and October, stats from the docs were not collected and this is the first time we can see complete figures since July and that is in line with what we have seen: the page views have almost doubled.

You might have head about that Tricentis shut down the SpecFlow GitHub project. The stats for November does not contain the impact of this on Reqnroll and December is a special month, so we will see only after January if this incident caused more projects to migrate.

Usage:

• Website & Docs* visitors: 3.4K* (July*: 2.5K)
• Website & Docs* page views: 24K* (July*: 14.0K)
• Top 5 Docs page: Docs home, Quickstart, Migration, IDE Setup, Gherkin reference* (July*: Migration, Quickstart, Docs home, Install & Setup, IDE Setup)
• NuGet package downloads (Reqnroll package, last 6 weeks): 369K (348K)
• NuGet package downloads compared to SpecFlow NuGet downloads (last 6 weeks): 12% (12%)
• Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by VS2022 extension: 74.4K (70.0K)
• Top 3 countries of VS2022 extension usage: United Kingdom, USA, Netherlands (United Kingdom, USA, Netherlands)
• Reqnroll projects (.NET projects executed by Reqnroll): 5248 (4705)
• Reqnroll test executions: 2.16M (2.21M)
• Reqnroll test executions per project per month: avg: 412, median: 56 (N/A)

* Between August and October, stats from the docs were not collected, so the last comparable month is July.

.NET Framework Usage:

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

1. .NET 8.0: 82% (85%)
2. .NET 9.0: 6% (0%)
3. .NET 6.0: 6% (9%)
4. .NET 4.8: 4% (4%)
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% (70%)
2. GitLab CI/CD: 10% (11%)
3. GitHub Actions: 9% (9%)
4. Jenkins: 5% (4%)
5. TeamCity: 4% (4%)
6. Atlassian Bamboo: 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: 39hrs (45hrs)