Comments on: Silverlight Unit Test Framework: New version in the April 2010 Silverlight Toolkit

By: smb

smb — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 22:46:00 +0000

Hello, I would like to bump this question.

Also did the fixes for the known issues in the april 2010 toolkit release get implemented in the silverlight 5 toolkit?

By: Ariel Ben Horesh

Ariel Ben Horesh — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 07:31:00 +0000

@Jeff, if you can influence someone to integrate this with TFS Build Server, it’s long due.
Thanks!

By: Louise

Louise — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:44:00 +0000

I don’t find the test results. You discovered the location?

By: orange25

orange25 — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:40:00 +0000

Jeff, I would like to know if the test framework will support tests written with the Silverlight 5 Beta runtime? Are there plans to add support for Silverlight 5 in the unit test framework?

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:11:00 +0000

Rvarma,
If you’re using MVVM, you can populate your test model objects any way you wish. For example: You can store your test data in XML or JSON format in files under your test project (make sure to set the respective build action of each file to “Resource”). Next, write a simple utility that can deserialize the XML or JSON back to model objects and, voila, you have test data.

Our team uses this approach in conjunction with mocking frameworks (e.g. Rhino Mocks, Moq) and it’s worked out well on our projects.

By: Rommel Manalo

Rommel Manalo — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:17:00 +0000

Is there any updates on this?

By: Rvarma

Rvarma — Thu, 26 May 2011 20:55:00 +0000

Is there a hacky way to make it work? What about using the Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework.dll and dynamically loading the System.Data.dll to use System.Data.Datarow? Are we every going to resolve this in future versions of the test framework?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 May 2011 19:51:00 +0000

No changes, external files and data-driven tests won’t work. It’s a result
of the sandboxed security model.

By: Rvarma

Rvarma — Thu, 26 May 2011 19:45:00 +0000

Jeff, I would really like to know whether data-driven testing or in other words using the TestContext to read data from external files will work in the 2010 version of the SL unit test framework?

I see that System.Data.DataRow is not implemented and that tells me that there is no support for using TestContext and hence no support for DDT. But if there is a way to do DDT using the test framework then I would really like to know.

Your link under http://www.jeff.wilcox.name/2008/08/utbasics/ lists the following

Desktop features that will not work with the Silverlight test framework today (or are no-ops):
■Data-driven tests
■TestContext
■File-based assertions and accessing the file system
■Using WorkItem or TestProperty attributes
■Web/ASP.NET test functionality.
■DeploymentItem.

Is the above still true for the latest 2010 release?

Thanks
Ruchi

By: Jeff Wilcox

Jeff Wilcox — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:48:23 +0000

@Ashutosh,
Nope!

By: Ashutosh

Ashutosh — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:40:24 +0000

Thanks Jeff. But do you have any sample code which can collect the logs/results and then convert it into the TRX?

By: Jeff Wilcox

Jeff Wilcox — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:32:31 +0000

@Ashutosh,
There’s no built-in log saving for the phone, though you could connect to various events on the UnitTestHarness type to generate your own, save it to isolated storage, send to a web service, etc.

By: Ashutosh

Ashutosh — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:14:44 +0000

I am planning to use this framework for unit test automation on Windows Phone 7. Can you please let me know where the logs are getting generated? Can we have the results in TRX format?

By: Crash

Crash — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:57:18 +0000

@Jeff

I checked both places and there seem to be no saved test results at all. Searched my drive for .trx files also to no avail. I’ve been testing using Statlight but cannot currently get it to work properly either

By: Jeff Wilcox

Jeff Wilcox — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:06:06 +0000

@Crash,
For phone testing, there isn’t storage of the results.
For desktop, if everything aligns, then it is possible that it is stored in the current directory or the debug folder. There are some issues with this working consistently.
There’s also a tool called StatLight that might be of help: http://statlight.net/