Unit testing WPF controls with NUnit

Question

Hi there,

Has anyone had experience testing WPF controls using NUnit?

There are a few problems I've come across that seem to make it a pretty time consuming task:
- The problems that NUnitForms tries to solve - ie. simulating a button click etc...
- NUnit uses MTA Threads - in some cases WPF controls require STA threads. There's a 'CrossThreadRunnerHelper' solution out there that allows you to run a test in a separate thread. But this also makes things even more complex.

Does anyone have any ideas on making this process a bit simpler? Samples/Examples would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Ashley

Answer 1

We've been using MbUnit happily for this task, which lets you put an attribute like this on a test fixture:

[TestFixture(ApartmentState = ApartmentState.STA)]

See http://www.mertner.com/confluence/display/MbUnit/FixtureThreadApartmentState

Answer 2

Wow...that rocks.  Does nunit have any plans for this?