Monthly stats: 2025 February - Hello India 🇮🇳, doubled NuGet downloads

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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 February 2025

Featured:

We kept measuring the country of the usages of the Visual Studio extension. For a long time, the top 3 countries were United Kingdom, USA and Netherlands. February was the first month, where India came in to the top 3. So with all our respect to our loyal Dutch users 🙏, I would like to say hello and a big thanks to our users from India 🇮🇳! I think this is again a good sign of more and more enterprise users being on board.

Also worth noting that there was an incredible increase of our NuGet package usage on nuget.org. The downloads doubled again and by that we are at the 30% of the downloads of SpecFlow.

Usage:

• Website & Docs visitors: 10K (8.9K)
• Website & Docs page views: 65K (56K)
• Top 5 Docs page: Migration, Docs home, Quickstart, IDE Setup, Configuration (Migration, Docs home, Quickstart, IDE Setup, Install & Setup)
• NuGet package downloads (Reqnroll package, last 6 weeks): 631K (278K)
• NuGet package downloads compared to SpecFlow NuGet downloads (based on "per day average"): 30% (13%*)
• Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by VS2022 extension: 172K (113K)
• Number of Reqnroll projects loaded by Rider extension: 38.8 (43.8)
• Number of active VS2022 & Rider extension installations: 10.28K, VS: 9.9K, Rider: 0.38K (6.74K, VS: 6.28K, Rider: 0.46K)
• Upgrades to latest VS2022 extension: 4068 (2536)
• Top 3 countries (from VS2022 extension usage): United Kingdom, USA, India (United Kingdom, USA, Netherlands)
• Reqnroll projects (.NET projects executed by Reqnroll): 11341 (8609)
• Reqnroll test executions: 3.8M (2.4M)
• Reqnroll test executions per project per month: avg: 334, median: 49 (avg: 330, median: 48)

(*) So far the SpecFlow comparison was done by comparing the full download stats of both products in the last 6 years, but for some reason, this stats for SpecFlow disappeared from NuGet, so we switched to compare the "per day average" number shown on the package main page.

.NET Framework Usage:

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

1. .NET 8.0: 72% (76%)
2. .NET 9.0: 13% (11%)
3. .NET 4.8: 7% (6%)
4. .NET 6.0: 6% (6%)
5. .NET 7.0: 1% (1%)

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: 45% (42%)
2. xUnit: 29% (30%)
3. MsTest: 27% (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: 8% (8%)
3. GitLab CI/CD: 7% (8%)
4. Jenkins: 5% (5%)
5. TeamCity: 4% (4%)
6. Atlassian Bamboo: 2% (2%)
7. BrowserStack: 1% (1%)
8. Octopus Deploy: 1% (1%)
9. Bitbucket Pipelines: 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: 68hrs (28hrs)

📢I encourage everyone to invite the contributors for a coffee🍵. That we could use to pay our hosting bills or finally have gathering to make an in-person design workshop to better align our goals. (And drink those coffees, of course. Maybe a beer 🍺too...) https://github.com/sponsors/reqnroll.