I have just started working with MVVMCross for a cross platform app and I am having a hard time figuring out how to test my ViewModels. I tried following the testing done in TwitterSearch and ran into problems. Specifically in the MockSetup.cs I found that in the latest version of MvvmCross there no longer seems to be a IMvxViewDispatcherProvider but that is ok because I think its functionality has been rolled up into the IMvxViewDispatcher. However, when actually setting up the dipatcher for my test cases there is no RequestNavigate method for the dispatcher anymore and I can not find an implementation of MvxShowViewModelRequest. So I can not actually get any tests for my ViewModels to work.
I also tried to follow the testing here http://slodge.blogspot.com/2012/10/testing-viewmodels-in-mvvmcross.html but again ran into issues with missing MvxOpenNetCfServiceProviderSetup.
So in summary, my issue has been getting a MockSetup working so that I can test my ViewModels. If I could just be pointed in the right direction on the dispatcher, I think that would help.
It looks like you are trying to test an mvvmcross v3 application using mvvmcross vnext objects.
The updated twitter search test for v3 is at https://github.com/slodge/MvvmCross-Tutorials/tree/master/Sample%20-%20TwitterSearch/TwitterSearch.Test
This test uses a single special mock object: https://github.com/slodge/MvvmCross-Tutorials/blob/master/Sample%20-%20TwitterSearch/TwitterSearch.Test/Mocks/MockMvxViewDispatcher.cs
The role of this mock is just currently:
to provide a very simple main thread (it uses the current thread)
to provide simple storage for any navigation requests.
You can see it used in:
https://github.com/slodge/MvvmCross-Tutorials/blob/master/Sample%20-%20TwitterSearch/TwitterSearch.Test/HomeViewModelTest.cs
I am looking for a way to batch requests to the server. I found a post by Brad Wilson outlining how to make a batch handler using a message hanlder http://bradwilson.typepad.com/blog/2012/06/batching-handler-for-web-api.html#more but I wasn't able to get this working.
first I had compile errors because webapi did not understand "route-specific endpoint handler" like Brad's example used. there were also problems with the media type and/or formatter (can't remember which). My next attempt was to make a batch controller. so instead of a batch handler I had a batch controller. I almost has this working except when I used the MessageHandlerInvoker to call the individual commands I got exceptions about the additional handlers I have regsstered (1 for logging request/response and another to mimic user authentication).
At that point I stopped and reverted back to individual requests, not ideal, but it works.
My environment:
.net 4.0
VS 2010
mvc 4 front end (calls webapi)
webapi as a service tier
Has anyone else had any success with batched messages and webapi?
To be able to use per-route handlers you need ASP.NET Web API RTM which was only released yesterday (at the time when Brad wrote the article, it would only work with nightly MyGet feed builds or against Codeplex source).
You can get entire MVC4 RTM here or simply off Nuget.
I feel like I'm stuck in this political/religious battle. From the research I've done I've found that many people believe very strongly that UI testing is silly to do via unit testing and is something much better done by an actual person. I agree.
However it seems the higher-ups have told me to unit test the UI. (Which is already strange since they had previously told me I only had to write a test plan and not actual test). In all sincerity I'm not very familiar with unit testing. I'm trying to use MOQ but all the tutorials I find for it use repositories and not services and I'm structuring my web application around services.
As an example here is (a part of) a service:
public class ProductService : Service<Product, EntitiesDbContext>
{
...
public Product GetProduct(int id)
{
return All().FirstOrDefault(p => p.ProductId == id);
}
...
}
My assumption is that I need to create let's say, a new Product using Moq, and then someone validate the hard-coded input using my model. I'm not sure how to do this.
Testing the UI is the bulk of my work as the website relies heavily on user input via forms. Again I find it quite silly to test with unit testing since my models are very strict and only allow certain inputs.
To my question:
How would I go about testing form input using MOQ or possibly another testing framework?
I've heard that there are programs out there that can track your actions and then replicate them, but I've been unsuccessful in finding them and I also believe that such a technology would cost money.
Try Selenium or Watin for UI testing.
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate has something called Coded UI test. Basically, you record your actions in Internet Explorer, which translate to C# code where you add assertions, and then you replay the actions in different browsers.
However, it is very difficult to test against a database backed web application, since you can hardly figure out which is the newly added row. To simplify matters, you might want to set up a sample database which will be reset to its initial state before running your test suite in sequence.
Take a look at the various TechEd videos on how to use Coded UI Test. E.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ8Q5EJ2bQM
Are you testing the Actions for your UI or are you testing Actual UI.
If you are testing the Actions and what data they are sending to the view then doing unit tests using something like NUnit, xUnit, etc and using a moq framework like MOQ or Rhino Mocks would be the right thing to do.
if you are testing the Actual UI(the HTML returned by the web server) then using an automated testing framework like Selenium would be the right tool
You can also try Ivonna (http://ivonna.biz) for MVC testing -- doesn't test your client side, but lets you test your Asp.Net server side code.
But first of all you should ask yourself (or your management) a question: what do I want to test? Client/server side validation? Your Service? Action Method?
There is a lot of opposition by developers to automate testing of the UI. What I did years ago was use "Selenium Core" This allowed me to fix do the testing in Firefox, then save out as C# , and then have a blend of C# and Html files in which I could have it do the following.
Forgot Password -- Automation random usernames from database would be entered and then encrypted passwords were emailed to various gmail accounts I set up and I had C# API to login to gmail and retrieve new reset password, then redirect and have application enter new password , and I could put this on a CI Server Hudson and automate this testing all day long, and logging of success and errors etc...
New Registration... similar to #1
So for your UI testing, lets call that Functional or UAT testing ...
Then for true Unit Testing, this is for NUnit / Xunit, MSTest etc... , and then MOQ etc... can assist.
Integration testing is truly testing of the entire application with connected systems... like a file system or WCF or Database , not being "mocked"
They all have their pros and cons and none of it is perfect, but most people end up saying Unit Testing is most bang for the buck.
I have a unit test that behaves differently depending on parameters passed. Does VS 2010 MS Testing framework have a facility to call the same test with different parameters.
I am looking for something like this:
[TestRun(False)]
[TestRun(True)]
[TestMethod]
public void FooTest(bool a)
{
RunTest(a);
}
I have no idea why Micosoft's decided not to include this feature in their unit testing framework, whenever I search for it I find reference to the DataSource attribute that enable loading data from external resource (XML file, data base etc.)
If you do not want to use and external data source then you have two choices:
Add RowTest support using MSTest extensability framework - explained here
I wrote in my blog how to use PostSharp to create the external data source from the test attributes.
If you're already using VS2010 I suggest you go with the first option - there is even a full working code at Microsoft's code gallery.
The following page tells how to achieve the same with MSTest data-driven testing capabilities: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.visualstudio.testtools.unittesting.dataaccessmethod.aspx
Visual Studio >> Debug menu >> Start performance analysis doesn't work with a HttpHandler because it cannot be run by itself. The error is something like this:
getting asp.net information failed. 'http://localhost/myprojrct/VSEnterpriseHelper.axd' returned error (500 internal server error)
Also attaching to w3wp.exe via profiler only profiles CPU.
How is it possible to run performance analysis on a HttpHandler asp.net project (I don't use ashx file and there's no asp.net page, just a class which implements IHttpHandler)
The simple answer is to move your processing logic out of your IHttpHandler implementation and into a class that can be tested with Profiler. Keep your footprint for the handler as small as possible.