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Software Testing Tools in Visual Studio

Software Testing Magazine — Mon, 01 May 2023 15:04:02 +0000

This presentation shows how you can take advantage of the most recent additional to the unit testing tools in Visual Studio to build more reliable apps. Besides Visual Studio own tools, you can also run unit tests in Visual Studio by using third-party test frameworks such as NUnit, Boost, or Google C++ Testing Framework, depending on your programming language. The unit test tools of Visual Studio include: Test Explorer — Run unit tests and see their results in Test Explorer. You can use any unit test framework, including a third-party framework, that has an adapter for Test Explorer. Microsoft unit test framework for managed code—The Microsoft unit test framework for managed code is installed with Visual Studio and provides a framework for testing .NET code. Microsoft Native Unit Test Framework — The Microsoft Native Unit Test Framework for C++ is installed as part of the Desktop development with C++ workload. It provides a framework for testing native code. Google Test, Boost.Test, and CTest frameworks are also included, and third-party adapters are available for additional test frameworks. For more information, see Write unit tests for C/C++. Code coverage tools — You can determine the amount of product code that your unit tests exercise from one command in Test Explorer. Microsoft Fakes isolation framework — The Microsoft Fakes isolation framework can create substitute classes and methods for production and system .NET code that create dependencies in the code under test. By implementing the fake delegates for a function, you control the behavior [...]

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Quick Introduction to SpecFlow

Software Testing Magazine — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 17:11:34 +0000

SpecFlow is an open source Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) tool for .NET. SpecFlow uses the official Gherkin parser and supports the .NET framework, Xamarin and Mono. You can use SpecFlow to define, manage and automatically execute human-readable acceptance tests in .NET projects. Writing easily understandable tests is a cornerstone of the BDD paradigm and also helps build up a living documentation of your system. Anton Angelov has created a series of articles dedicated to Specflow that starts with an introduction tutorial. SpecFlow integrates with Visual Studio, but can be also used from the command line (e.g. on a build server). SpecFlow supports popular testing frameworks: MSTest, NUnit (2 and 3), xUnit 2 and MbUnit. This introductory article of Anton Angelov provides a step by step process to use SpecFlow that goes from the tool installation to test execution. It starts by explaining how to install SpecFlow in Visual Studio. Then the article explains how to create a scenario with an example. You will learn how to write the step definitions that bind the statements in the test scenario to the application code. You will also learn how create the page objects that will drive your tests and how to generate and manage the bindings. You will then be ready to execute your tests. The full code of this example is available for download. Read the complete article on https://automatetheplanet.com/getting-started-specflow/

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Software Testing in Continuous Integration

Software Testing Magazine — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 15:17:41 +0000

As DevOps is now a new important approach for rapid software delivery, how do you perform software testing in this context of reduced cycle times. In his article, Gopinath C H explains how to perform testing in continuous integration and continuous deployment workflows, providing examples based on the Visual Studio 2015 and Team Foundation Server tools. The article starts with a definition of the DevOps approach and the presentation of a typical continuous integration workflow. It follows with the example of a simple web application that has already unit tests and automated Selenium tests. A step-by-step approach is presented on how to integrate these items in a continuous integration workflow using Visual Studio. This explanation will teach you how to: Create a simple build definition with build, unit testing and automated tests Simplify experience in configuring machines and test agents Improve build summary and test runs analysis Configure the build definition as a “continuous integration” for all check-ins Read the complete article on http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2015/05/29/testing-in-continuous-integration-and-continuous-deployment-workflows.aspx

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Using Visual Studio 2012 to Test Windows 8 Applications

Software Testing Magazine — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:33:48 +0000

In this blog post, Rui Sun and Andre Hamilton explore some Visual Studio 2012 capabilities that will make it easier to test and verify Windows 8 applications. Visual Studio 2012 has a simulator that reduces your need to have physical devices of every form factor at your disposal for testing. You can launch your application in the simulator directly from within the Visual Studio through the debugging action. Then you can interact with your application using the mouse or using simulated touch on your development computer with gestures like swipe, pinch to zoom and rotation. Visual Studio also provides a unit test library project for Windows 8 applications written in C#, VB.net or C++.

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New Visual Studio 2012 Unit Testing Experience

Software Testing Magazine — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:42:44 +0000

The new Visual Studio 2012 tries to improve the developer unit testing experience, particularly for agile teams. The entire unit testing framework has been made extensible, which will allow you to use testing frameworks such as xUnit.net and NUnit in addition to the unit testing framework built into Visual Studio. This talk presents the history of unit testing in Visual Studio and then takes you through the product, showing off the new unit testing features. View slides and download/view this video in other formats

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Integrating Javascript Unit Testing in Visual Studio Build

Software Testing Magazine — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:26:13 +0000

This is a series of three posts by Nick Olson about the topic of unit testing your code your when you are writing a javascript client application with a .NET backend. The first post is an introduction that defines the context and presents the tools that will be used. The second post provides the code to test the javascript using KnockoutJS and Qunit. The third post explains how see the javascript unit tests results when you are inside Visual Studio. This is achieved using a browser automation tool walled Watin and a data-driven unit test in C#.

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Software Testing with Visual Studio Coded UI

Software Testing Magazine — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:47:06 +0000

Visual Studio allows you to create automated tests of the user interface (UI) known as coded UI tests. These tests provide functional testing of the UI and validation of UI controls. This article provides test automation guidance that helps you leverage the coded UI features of Visual Studio 2010 to foster a continuous, consistent and standard automation approach. Such an approach allows you to build, deploy and test, taking advantage of Visual Studio Lab Management features, which let automation testers reap the benefits of integrating with the build process for automatic build deployment, executing on VMs and reporting test automation results as part of Microsoft Test Manager (MTM). The article provides also a list of Do’s and Don’ts of UI automation. UI automation can be a tricky business. To help you get the best results, follow the advice, guidance and best practices for writing coded UI tests in the following Do and Don’t lists.

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Coded UI Tests with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Software Testing Magazine — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:04:54 +0000

This video takes a detailed look at coded UI tests,which can be used to create fully automated UI tests for Microsoft Silverlight, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and web applications. Learn some techniques for creating robust coded UI tests which can be maintained over time along with your evolving application. The second half of this session examines Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management. Learn how to enable “continuous delivery” of your code changes into one or more virtual test labs, and enable a fully-automated build-deploy-test workflow.

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