Testing windows workflow foundation

Question

Hi,

Am looking at samples that talks about creating NUnits on windows workflows.

Came across these links

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jerrynoll/archive/2008/06/12/hello-workflow-unit-testing-workflows-using-the-visual-studio-unit-test-framework-part-1.aspx

http://developers.de/blogs/damir_dobric/archive/2007/07/31/wf-unit-testing-how-to-create-activity-type-from-xoml.aspx

but am a beginner in worflows I couldnt follow it much.

Suggest me some good links that would get me started.

I tried the below code on a very simple workflow that has a writeline activity.

 

using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;

using System.Activities;

namespace UnitTestForWFProgram {

[TestClass]

public class UnitTest1 {

[TestMethod]

public void TestMethod1() {

var output =

WorkflowInvoker.Invoke(new WorkflowForTest());

Assert.AreEqual("Test Message",

output["OutMessage"]);

}

}

}

I want to go one step further and see how testing can be done on medium complex workflows.

Answer 1

Hi,

Please check Microsoft.Activities.UnitTesting.

Microsoft.Activities.UnitTesting is a unit testing framework designed to make it easier to unit test activities and workflow services built with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4).
The Framework contains

• Test Hosts which wrap WorkflowInvoker, WorkflowApplication and WorkflowServiceHost
• Assert helper classes for asserting out arguments and tracking records

These classes are test framework independent so you can use them with MSTest, NUnit, xUnit or whatever test framework you like.  In the walkthroughs we will use MSTest

Microsoft.Activities.UnitTesting

http://wf.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Microsoft.Activities.UnitTesting%20Overview&referringTitle=Home

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