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Unit Testing SharePoint Solutions – The Basics

By root | Published August 26, 2008
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  • http://www.pseale.com/blog/ Peter Seale

    I liked the article, it was very approachable and no-nonsense introduction to testing web parts and doing TDD.

    I maintain my opinion that attempting to do full unit test coverage doesn’t help enough to be worthwhile, at least in my projects. I’ll happily write tests for the parts that can be easily tested (i.e. code that doesn’t interact with the SharePoint object model), but the majority of my code does in fact, interact with the SharePoint object model–so in effect, I don’t end up unit testing anything.

    http://www.pseale.com/blog/SharePointNotUnitTesting.aspx

    Tom Clarkson wrote a few interesting posts on his blog, you may be particularly interested in his approach to testing Workflow: http://www.tqcblog.com/archive/2008/05/22/unit-testing-a-state-machine-workflow-with-delay-activities.aspx

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  • http://people.etango.com/~markm/ Mark Mascolino

    Interesting. I do however look forward to articles that actually use the SharePoint OM. Also key I think is to make sure that everything is automated and configurable so that developers working on different machines with different configurations can still do their work on the same code base without troubles.

  • http://www.21apps.com Andrew Woodward

    Peter/Mark,

    I agree that there is a need for some examples using the OM and these are in progress. What I wanted to do with this first white paper was introduce to concept to people and show that it is possible to to TDD in SharePoint projects. Introduction Mocking in a beginners guide I think would scare people away from the subject completely.

    This blog post does provide some links that start to demonstrate unit testing where you code uses the SharePoint OM.

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  • http://www.reversealchemy.net Erik Burger

    Hi Andrew,

    Very nice article and an excellent introduction to TDD within a SharePoint environment. I realize that there’s a lot of issues involved when one starts using the OM so I am looking forward very much to the next installment.

    Best Regards,
    Erik

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  • Mark Smith

    Many thanks. I've downloaded this but not yet read it. The text formatting is weird – like the whole document is a btimap, BTW.

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  • http://dlairman.wordpress.com/ Jim Adcock

    Two things –

    First, I agree with Mark that the formatting of the doc is weird. Most annoying is that the hyperlinks aren't clickable, especially the ones without URLs (ex the unit testing articles referenced on the bottom of page 3.

    Second, the comments from Allgates and Traveller_Adventure have a bit of a spammy feel to them (though without my having visited their links). Just saying…

  • http://www.21apps.com AndrewWoody

    Thanks Jim, have now removed what were rightly spam comments that got through the net.

    I think the PDF being a bit off was down to the way it was generated, will see if the new Office 2007 PDF export works better.

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    This seems like the most comprehensive blog on this niche

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  • Ali Danger

    From what I can see this is a tutorial on (a) writing a generic unit test; and (b) writing a web part, but does not cover writing a unit test for a web part. Quite helpful, but didn't really solve my problem.

  • http://www.21apps.com AndrewWoody

    Ali

    have a look at the second White paper. This one really shows how you an design testable code even with SharePoint.

    If you have any specific challenges let me know.

  • http://discoverlars.wordpress.com Lars Nielsen

    Thanks for this paper. As someone who knows only a little about unit testing, this is a great starting point on the practicalities of unit testing.

    It was a good idea to focus on unit testing a class at first, rather than getting bogged down in the SharePoint object model and the web part itself. I found when going through the tutorial that I occasionally got “Unable to copy” compiler errors in Visual Studio when the DLL was locked by NUnit. The solution was to reload the project in NUnit before compiling – it might be worth mentioning this in the notes.

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    well, Solutions—The Basics. Andrew Woodward explains the fundamentals of writing unit tests for SharePoint solutions

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