Any idea why a unit test class is not discovered in the server project.

Question

I'm quite familiar with unit testing in regular .net projects. 

It's fairly simple to add to a lightswitch solution a new project and add e.g. Xunit test classes. Works like a charm.

But when I want to add a xUnit test class (after using nuget to install Xunit in the assembly), everything compiles fine, but tests are not discovered.

Any idea how to fix this ?

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paul van bladel

Answer 1

no idea??

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paul van bladel

Answer 2

Hello Paul

With this release as with our first release (see comments regarding V1 from http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/lightswitchgeneral/thread/16d40b45-5ede-4c94-a71e-242b65c274c1) , believe we still have not yet addressed this.  I will bring this up for v-next to see if we can get this worked included as I can see that there more than a few folks wanting this!  Thanks for bringing this up!

-Robert 

Answer 3

Thanks Robert,

Would be great. 

Check also following post: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/lightswitchhtml/thread/f50cc506-664b-40ce-b9ef-688ec19b4461

which addresses the question how to access the ServerApp Context in an assembly where there is no http context.

I think that being able to write full-blown unit tests in LightSwitch will be a huge step forward to convince professional IT people to adopt LightSwitch.

In modern programming practice, unit tests is seen as a must because it:

(1) improves the general code design because you first think about how testing the code and build up your code step by step

(2) acts as a safety net for changes into your codes base. (especially when running the tests in continuous integration)

This makes sense in LightSwitch as well.

In standard N-tier .net development, unit tests are most frequently used for testing the "business logic layer" in isolation (where the data layer is mocked out) or with a "connected" data layer (so more an integration test scenario)

I have not yet a clear idea how to architecture this in LightSwitch. Ideas are welcome.

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paul van bladel

Answer 4

Cool - thanks for the additional info! 

Will see if we can provide some "guidance" on what can be done here in the current release of LightSwitch.

-Robert