xunit

Why I’m not migrating to xUnit completely

Posted on by trailmax

After initial excitement about xUnit and how cool your tests become with AutoDataAttribute. My itch to convert all my tests into xUnit have died down. And I’m not excited as much. XUnit is certainly not the silver bullet.

I do agree with certain things that are in xUnit, like not providing [SetUp] and [TearDown], rather have constructor and destructor, but can’t agree with other things. And the authors of xUnit have not been listening to their community which is unfortunate. I’ll list the annoyances I discovered in the order I faced them.

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Run xUnit in hosted Team Foundation Service

Posted on by trailmax

Now, as promised my other project is hosted and built on hosted Team Foundation Service and it took me a bit of fiddling before I managed to run NUnit tests on it. However, there is an excellent walk-through how to do that: http://www.mytechfinds.com/articles/software-testing/6-test-automation/72-running-nunit-tests-from-team-foundation-server-2012-continuous-integration-build

Much in the same way you can do xUnit:

  1. Download xunit.runner.visualstudio-x.x.x.vsix from Codeplex.
  2. Change file extension from .vsix to .zip and open with zip archiver.
  3. Copy all xunit.*.dll files to a folder that is mapped to TFS and check them in. I prefer to have these files in /BuildFramework folder

xUnit_VS

  1. Now, pretty much the same as with NUnit set up (If you have not done that before), you need to update settings for Build Controller. In VS go to Team Explorer -> Builds -> Actions -> Manage Build Controllers. And set “Version Control path to custom assemblies” to the folder where you have saved adapters for xUnit:

Build_controller

And you are pretty much done. You can now check in and your xUnit tests will run on hosted TFS (Presuming TFS is set up correctly to run your tests).