AmpTools.Net

You can find many of the new features over at Jeff Brown's blog.  Some of the cooler features of note is the integration with the visual studio testing system, wrapping testing for exceptions into a delegate, and data store called Ambient, in which you can store state for your tests.  I've integrated this into amplify which is again, now on GitHub. I did run into a few lil issues when setting this up though....

The biggest issue was finding out how to turn a project into a test project in order to get the visual studio integration working for Gallio. Basically you need to make modifications to the .csproj file and add an XML element of <ProjectTypeGuids> into the first <PropertyGroup> of the file. 

<ProjectTypeGuids>{3AC096D0-A1C2-E12C-1390-A8335801FDAB};
{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC} 
</ProjectTypeGuids>

After this, I could get the Gallio tests showing up in visual studio.

Now this coupled with Test Driven .Net really helps with the testing process especially since with certain versions of Visual Studio, Test Driven .Net will let you run visual studio's code coverage with Gallio.

Again, one of the cooler features was the improvements to Mb-Unit's Asserts (which did change the API, but its all good, cause I wrap the Asserts that I use in BDD style mixin Methods, so I just need to change them in one place). The one really change of note would be adding Assert.Throw and Assert.Throw<T>, to which you can wrap throwing an exception into a delegate.

All in all nice improvements to both Gallio and Mb-Unit, which are now incorporated into amplify.

Labels: Amplify, BDD, BHAG, C#, Code, CSharp, Gallio, Mb-Unit, Mixins, Unit Testing