Azure DevOps makes it very easy to run unit tests and display code coverage results in your builds, but I noticed, by default, it was also showing test coverage of 3rd party DLLs, in my case, Moq. These DLLs are not being tested in my application, so it brings the code coverage percentage down. I'm going [...]
I was creating a multi step web test in Visual Studio, for use in running in Azure. I needed to extract a request value for use later in my test. I could not seem to find a concrete example of how to do this. Here's what worked for me: When creating a Web Test in Visual Studio, [...]
I should mention that this is not intended to be a full in-depth review and comparison of the two UI testing frameworks, just a quick post on my general thoughts after using both of them on the same project. I have recently started work on introducing some basic automated UI tests to one of our solutions. [...]
I'm writing this post from the Austin airport as I'm getting ready to head home after a very educational 4 days in Austin for VSLive 2015. I wanted to quickly write down a lot of key points from all of the sessions I attended. I figure writing about something is a good way to retain a [...]
There are various libraries available to help you unit test your controller actions, returned views and models, and action results with MVC. One that I have recently started using is TestStack.FluentMVCTesting. This library allows you to perform actions on your controllers within your unit tests, and then verify, with a fluent syntax, that those actions behaved [...]
Up until this point, I had mostly been using nHibernate for my ORM solution in most applications I work on. So when I started diving into Entity Framework (EF) models and trying to write unit tests against logic that lives in EF entities, I first encountered the ObjectSet<T> type. Now to be clear, I was not [...]
