diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index a52c6a9..6c83a67 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -552,4 +552,4 @@ test = ["covdefaults (>=2.3)", "coverage (>=7.2.7)", "coverage-enable-subprocess
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = ">=3.8"
-content-hash = "5b7935aa2b2d579d4fdb8361b414d37fff142a359332d859ed1513209ca3b1a6"
+content-hash = "b40d47067f444deec4964404014795593f1b602f8a2f6376279bb5a27d5e18be"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 0ecc528..3c163d1 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ parse = "*"
 parse-type = "*"
 pytest = ">=6.2.0"
 typing-extensions = "*"
+packaging = "*"
 
 [tool.poetry.group.dev.dependencies]
 tox = ">=4.11.3"
diff --git a/src/pytest_bdd/compat.py b/src/pytest_bdd/compat.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..584c48f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/pytest_bdd/compat.py
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+from collections.abc import Sequence
+from importlib.metadata import version
+from typing import Optional
+
+from _pytest.fixtures import FixtureDef, FixtureManager
+from _pytest.nodes import Node
+from packaging.version import Version
+from packaging.version import parse as parse_version
+
+pytest_version = parse_version(version("pytest"))
+
+
+if pytest_version >= Version("8.1"):
+
+    def getfixturedefs(fixturemanager: FixtureManager, fixturename: str, node: Node) -> Optional[Sequence[FixtureDef]]:
+        return fixturemanager.getfixturedefs(fixturename, node)
+
+else:
+
+    def getfixturedefs(fixturemanager: FixtureManager, fixturename: str, node: Node) -> Optional[Sequence[FixtureDef]]:
+        return fixturemanager.getfixturedefs(fixturename, node.nodeid)
diff --git a/src/pytest_bdd/generation.py b/src/pytest_bdd/generation.py
index 81dbf97..be4212f 100644
--- a/src/pytest_bdd/generation.py
+++ b/src/pytest_bdd/generation.py
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ import itertools
 import os.path
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, cast
 
-import pytest
 from _pytest._io import TerminalWriter
 from mako.lookup import TemplateLookup
 
+from .compat import getfixturedefs
 from .feature import get_features
 from .scenario import inject_fixturedefs_for_step, make_python_docstring, make_python_name, make_string_literal
 from .steps import get_step_fixture_name
@@ -130,10 +130,7 @@ def _find_step_fixturedef(
     """Find step fixturedef."""
     with inject_fixturedefs_for_step(step=step, fixturemanager=fixturemanager, node=item):
         bdd_name = get_step_fixture_name(step=step)
-        if hasattr(pytest, "version_tuple") and pytest.version_tuple >= (8, 1):
-            return fixturemanager.getfixturedefs(bdd_name, item)
-        else:
-            return fixturemanager.getfixturedefs(bdd_name, item.nodeid)
+        return getfixturedefs(fixturemanager, bdd_name, item)
 
 
 def parse_feature_files(paths: list[str], **kwargs: Any) -> tuple[list[Feature], list[ScenarioTemplate], list[Step]]:
diff --git a/src/pytest_bdd/scenario.py b/src/pytest_bdd/scenario.py
index f524d70..2fad5ee 100644
--- a/src/pytest_bdd/scenario.py
+++ b/src/pytest_bdd/scenario.py
@@ -23,12 +23,14 @@ from _pytest.fixtures import FixtureDef, FixtureManager, FixtureRequest, call_fi
 from typing_extensions import ParamSpec
 
 from . import exceptions
+from .compat import getfixturedefs
 from .feature import get_feature, get_features
 from .steps import StepFunctionContext, get_step_fixture_name, inject_fixture
 from .utils import CONFIG_STACK, get_args, get_caller_module_locals, get_caller_module_path
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from _pytest.mark.structures import ParameterSet
+    from _pytest.nodes import Node
 
     from .parser import Feature, Scenario, ScenarioTemplate, Step
 
@@ -42,7 +44,7 @@ PYTHON_REPLACE_REGEX = re.compile(r"\W")
 ALPHA_REGEX = re.compile(r"^\d+_*")
 
 
-def find_fixturedefs_for_step(step: Step, fixturemanager: FixtureManager, node) -> Iterable[FixtureDef[Any]]:
+def find_fixturedefs_for_step(step: Step, fixturemanager: FixtureManager, node: Node) -> Iterable[FixtureDef[Any]]:
     """Find the fixture defs that can parse a step."""
     # happens to be that _arg2fixturedefs is changed during the iteration so we use a copy
     fixture_def_by_name = list(fixturemanager._arg2fixturedefs.items())
@@ -59,10 +61,7 @@ def find_fixturedefs_for_step(step: Step, fixturemanager: FixtureManager, node)
             if not match:
                 continue
 
-            if hasattr(pytest, "version_tuple") and pytest.version_tuple >= (8, 1):
-                fixturedefs = fixturemanager.getfixturedefs(fixturename, node)
-            else:
-                fixturedefs = fixturemanager.getfixturedefs(fixturename, node.nodeid)
+            fixturedefs = getfixturedefs(fixturemanager, fixturename, node)
             if fixturedef not in (fixturedefs or []):
                 continue
 
@@ -117,7 +116,7 @@ def iterparentnodeids(nodeid: str) -> Iterator[str]:
 
 
 @contextlib.contextmanager
-def inject_fixturedefs_for_step(step: Step, fixturemanager: FixtureManager, node) -> Iterator[None]:
+def inject_fixturedefs_for_step(step: Step, fixturemanager: FixtureManager, node: Node) -> Iterator[None]:
     """Inject fixture definitions that can parse a step.
 
     We fist iterate over all the fixturedefs that can parse the step.