BDD With MSTest

re: BDD With MSTest

kyle bailey — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 04:40:47 GMT

Great article! I definetly am picking up a few pointers as I'm trying to put all of this BDD stuff together.

re: BDD With MSTest

SaintGimp — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:56:09 GMT

@Rodd: The TestContext property is optional but can provide some useful features for certain kinds of tests. Basically, if your test class has this property then MSTest will set it for you before the tests run and you can use it for various purposes. If you don't need to use the TestContext class in your tests then you don't need that property and field. See this link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms404699(VS.90).aspx

re: BDD With MSTest

Rodd Harris — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:18:00 GMT

Thanks Eric. I'm new to this stuff (and to the .Net community) and this has been realy helpful.

I do have one question. It's not a problem but more that I want to make sure I'm not missing something here. In your ContextSpecification class, you define TestContext property and the testContextInstance field. However, it doesn't look like they're ever used. Is that correct?

If so, why define them at all -- or are they required to exists for MSTest to be happy?

re: BDD With MSTest

Kim Stevens — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:09:13 GMT

Thanks Eric! I've modified my approach after reading those - much happier now :-)

http://kimstevens.posterous.com/testing-exceptions-with-bdd-style-mstest-take

re: BDD With MSTest

SaintGimp — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:47:42 GMT

I use pretty much the same technique as you described in your blog (see these posts of mine: http://blogs.msdn.com/elee/archive/2009/01/25/bdd-specification-extensions.aspx and http://blogs.msdn.com/elee/archive/2009/01/25/handling-exception-in-bdd-style-tests.aspx).

It's certainly more verbose than the attribute approach but it fits better with the separation in the BDD style and more importantly, it's explicit about what should cause the exception. With the attribute the test will pass if *anything* throws the expected exception, even something you weren't trying to test.

re: BDD With MSTest

Kim Stevens — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:38:05 GMT

@Eric I've been playing around with a way to test exceptions using your approach and without using the ExpectedExceptionAttribute - http://kimstevens.posterous.com/testing-exceptions-with-bdd-style-mstest

Have you discovered a better way?

Cheers,

Kim

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