ASP .NET - Unit Testing an ASP.NET Website using VS2008 Pro

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Unit Testing an ASP.NET Website using VS2008 Pro

dmeglio@gmail.com

2008-06-12, 7:37 pm

Hello,

I've just ported an ASP.NET project from VS 2003 to 2008. In 2003, I
was using NUnit to test. Under 2008, I don't get a single DLL for my
website, so I can't use NUnit anymore. Additionally, I'd prefer to use
the built in VS2008 Pro tools. I don't want to actually test ASPX
functionality, rather I have several classes that are in my App_Code
folder. I can't build a "test project" because there is no DLL for me
to reference so that I can test my App_Code. So, I tried adding the
test cases to a cs file in App_Code directly. First, when I click on a
class and do "Create Unit Tests", it fails with: There was an
unexpected error in displaying the Create Unit Tests Dialog. Please
rebuild and try again.

Naturally, I have tried rebuilding numerous times. Next I tried adding
a reference to Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting and
manually specifying [TestClass] and [TestMethod] it seems that it
still doesn't work. When I try to run the tests, I'm told that there
aren't any.

Does anyone know how I can accomplish this? Again, I'm not looking to
test ASPX functionality, I'm looking to test classes contained in
App_Code, so I don't think that whole UrlToTest() thing is necessary,
or am I wrong?

Thanks in advance.

Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)

2008-06-12, 7:37 pm

Move your classes from App_Code to their own libraries. Then, you will have
no problem using a unit test framework to test your functionality.

The other options are:

1. Publish and set nUnit to point to those files
2. Embed the tests in a subfolder of App_Code and run inside the project
(this forces flipping from web app to library, which can be a pain in the
____!

Of course that does not solve the "create stubs" issue, which will be solved
when you move your code to a class library project.

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MVP, MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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<dmeglio@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:a2fba7d6-f7be-454d-8ed2-4dd1ac19161e@e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> Hello,
>
> I've just ported an ASP.NET project from VS 2003 to 2008. In 2003, I
> was using NUnit to test. Under 2008, I don't get a single DLL for my
> website, so I can't use NUnit anymore. Additionally, I'd prefer to use
> the built in VS2008 Pro tools. I don't want to actually test ASPX
> functionality, rather I have several classes that are in my App_Code
> folder. I can't build a "test project" because there is no DLL for me
> to reference so that I can test my App_Code. So, I tried adding the
> test cases to a cs file in App_Code directly. First, when I click on a
> class and do "Create Unit Tests", it fails with: There was an
> unexpected error in displaying the Create Unit Tests Dialog. Please
> rebuild and try again.
>
> Naturally, I have tried rebuilding numerous times. Next I tried adding
> a reference to Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting and
> manually specifying [TestClass] and [TestMethod] it seems that it
> still doesn't work. When I try to run the tests, I'm told that there
> aren't any.
>
> Does anyone know how I can accomplish this? Again, I'm not looking to
> test ASPX functionality, I'm looking to test classes contained in
> App_Code, so I don't think that whole UrlToTest() thing is necessary,
> or am I wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance.

dmeglio@gmail.com

2008-06-12, 7:37 pm

On Jun 12, 2:08=A0pm, "Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)"
<NoSpamMgbwo...@comcast.netNoSpamM> wrote:
> Move your classes from App_Code to their own libraries. Then, you will hav=
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> no problem using a unit test framework to test your functionality.
>
> The other options are:
>
> 1. Publish and set nUnit to point to those files
> 2. Embed the tests in a subfolder of App_Code and run inside the project
> (this forces flipping from web app to library, which can be a pain in the
> ____!
>
> Of course that does not solve the "create stubs" issue, which will be solv=
ed
> when you move your code to a class library project.
>
> --
> Gregory A. Beamer
> MVP, MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA
>
> Subscribe to my bloghttp://gregorybeamer.spaces.live.com/lists/feed.rss
>
> or just read it:http://gregorybeamer.spaces.live.com/
>
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Maybe I'm missing something. If I can't run tests on code in
App_Code... why even have App_Code?

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