BizUnit Designer

Created Issue: Not able to run the test harness

preps2 — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:53:53 GMT

Application seems to be tied up with the V.1025 Microsoft.Services.BizTalkApplicationFramework.BizUnit.DLL. There is an unhandled exception while trying to run the tests.

Pradeep S
http:\\preps2.blogspot.com

CREATED ISSUE: ExecuteNonQueryStep - NumberOfRowsAffected Required

Chompers — Thu, 22 May 2008 11:28:36 GMT

In the tooltip description of the "NumberOfRowsAffected" step attribute, it is described as optional. However, it is marked as required in the list of attributes and the test cannot be saved without a value specified.

CREATED ISSUE: EventLogSaveStep has the same description as EventLogClearStep

Espo — Wed, 07 May 2008 10:31:57 GMT

EventLogSaveStep has the same description as EventLogClearStep

UPDATED WIKI: faq

praneethreddy — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:57:46 GMT

FAQ

How do I enter values for an attribute that is marked as repeating?

Attributes that accept repeating values need entries delimited by a double semi-colon – for example john;;doe

How do I use a value from the context?

To use a value from the context use the following notation: "takeFromCtx=KEY" (where KEY is the key name of the context whose value needs to be substituted).

How do I know if a test step can contain validation/context loader steps?

Have a look at the sample data textbox to know this

Why do my test cases run fine inside the Test harness but don’t work in my visual studio test projects?

BizUnit Designer creates test cases that assume all the required assemblies (that contain test steps) are present in the same folder as that of the executing assembly - so double-check if the teststep assemblies are copied into the out folder or added as a reference to your test projects.

What is the difference between creating a New test case and New from sample test case?

A new from sample test case creates a new test case using common templates – it brings new users up to speed quickly and also provides rapid test case development for common scenarios

A particular property is being marked as required while I know it is not, why is this?

There are some documentation errors in BizUnit and this causes the information in metadata to be listed incorrectly. Ignore these errors or edit the metadata file in BizUnit Designer by hand.

What are the Generic Url and Generic text ellipsis options for?

The former provides a text box where you can quickly enter any url’s while the latter provides a multiline textbox where you can type in chucks of text like xml.

UPDATED WIKI: faq

praneethreddy — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:56:40 GMT

FAQ

How do I enter values for an attribute that is marked as repeating?

Attributes that accept repeating values need entries delimited by a double semi-colon – for example john;;doe

Why do my test cases run fine inside the Test harness but don’t work in my visual studio test projects?

BizUnit Designer creates test cases that assume all the required assemblies (that contain test steps) are present in the same folder as that of the executing assembly - so double-check if the teststep assemblies are copied into the out folder or added as a reference to your test projects.

How do I know if a test step can contain validation/context loader steps?

Have a look at the sample data textbox to know this

What is the difference between creating a New test case and New from sample test case?

A new from sample test case creates a new test case using common templates – it brings new users up to speed quickly and also provides rapid test case development for common scenarios

A particular property is being marked as required while I know it is not, why is this?

There are some documentation errors in BizUnit and this causes the information in metadata to be listed incorrectly. Ignore these errors or edit the metadata file in BizUnit Designer by hand.

What are the Generic Url and Generic text ellipsis options for?

The former provides a text box where you can quickly enter any url’s while the latter provides a multiline textbox where you can type in chucks of text like xml.

How do I use a value from the context?

To use a value from the context use the following notation: "takeFromCtx=KEY" (where KEY is the key name of the context whose value needs to be substituted).

UPDATED WIKI: faq

praneethreddy — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:56:02 GMT

FAQ

How do I enter values for an attribute that is marked as repeating?

Attributes that accept repeating values need entries delimited by a double semi-colon – for example john;;doe

Why do my test cases run fine inside the Test harness but don’t work in my visual studio test projects?

BizUnit Designer creates test cases that assume all the required assemblies (that contain test steps) are present in the same folder as that of the executing assembly - so

double-check if the teststep assemblies are copied into the out folder or added as a reference to your test projects.

How do I know if a test step can contain validation/context loader steps?

Have a look at the sample data textbox to know this

What is the difference between creating a New test case and New from sample test case?

A new from sample test case creates a new test case using common templates – it brings new users up to speed quickly and also provides rapid test case development for common

scenarios

A particular property is being marked as required while I know it is not, why is this?

There are some documentation errors in BizUnit and this causes the information in metadata to be listed incorrectly. Ignore these errors or edit the metadata file in BizUnit

Designer by hand.

What are the Generic Url and Generic text ellipsis options for?

The former provides a text box where you can quickly enter any url’s while the latter provides a multiline textbox where you can type in chucks of text like xml.

How do I use a value from the context?

To use a value from the context use the following notation: "takeFromCtx=KEY" (where KEY is the key name of the context whose value needs to be substituted).

UPDATED RELEASE: BizUnit Designer 1.4 (Apr 30, 2008)

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:45:20 GMT

* Now test cases are created which reference assemblies in the same directory as the executing harness (bin/out folders) - this eliminates the need to modify the assemblypath inside the test cases.
* Added hotkeys to menu items.

RELEASED: BizUnit Designer 1.4 (Apr 30, 2008)

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:45:20 GMT

CREATED RELEASE: BizUnit Designer 1.4 (Apr 30, 2008)

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:42:17 GMT

* Now test cases are created which reference assemblies are the same directory as the executing harness - this eliminates the need to modify the assemblypath inside the test cases - just copy all the test step assembilies into the folder containing your test harness.
* Added hotkeys to menu items.

UPDATED WIKI: faq

praneethreddy — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:36:20 GMT

FAQ

How do I enter values for an attribute that is marked as repeating?

Attributes that accept repeating values need entries delimited by a double semi-colon – for example john;;doe

Why do my test cases run fine inside the Test harness but don’t work in my visual studio test projects?

BizUnit Designer creates test cases that assume all the required assemblies (that contain test steps) are present in the same folder as that of the executing assembly - so double-check if the teststep assemblies are copied into the out folder or added as a reference to your test projects.

How do I know if a test step can contain validation/context loader steps?

Have a look at the sample data textbox to know this

What is the difference between creating a New test case and New from sample test case?

A new from sample test case creates a new test case using common templates – it brings new users up to speed quickly and also provides rapid test case development for common scenarios

A particular property is being marked as required while I know it is not, why is this?

There are some documentation errors in BizUnit and this causes the information in metadata to be listed incorrectly. Ignore these errors or edit the metadata file in BizUnit Designer by hand.

What are the Generic Url and Generic text ellipsis options for?

The former provides a text box where you can quickly enter any url’s while the latter provides a multiline textbox where you can type in chucks of text like xml.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

praneethreddy — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:35:35 GMT

Introduction:

BizUnit Designer is a GUI that allows rapid creation of BizUnit test cases which can be used for unit testing or system testing distributed applications. The easy to use drag and drop user interface has minimal learning curve which will get you up and running with test cases in a matter of minutes.

Note: The test cases generated by BizUnit Designer 1.x are only compatible with BizUnit 2.x

Quick Start:

To create a new test case:

Click on the File->New menu to enable the Test case section
Drag and drop the test steps from the Available test steps section into one of the three stages in the Test case section
Click on each of the test steps in the Test case section to edit it’s attributes in the step attributes section (Use the ellipsis for filling the step attributes quickly)
If you need to re-arrange a test step, right click it and use the context menu
Save the test case into a xml file using the File->Save menu

Test harness:

BizUnit Designer lets you run your test cases without leaving the GUI using its test harness. To run the test cases, you need to copy the BizUnit and other assemblies (dlls) containing the test steps into the BizUnit Designer folder. You can run either a single test case or multiple test cases in a batch mode using the test harness.

How does BizUnit Designer work?

BizUnit designer uses the metadata from BizUnit documentation to retrieve test steps and attributes. This information is used to construct test cases. BizUnit only shows the test steps for which it has the documentation metadata in the metadata folder – this includes all the test steps that come with BizUnit.

Credits:

The fantastic BizUnit framework is created by Kevin B. Smith. While, BizUnit Designer doesn’t require BizUnit to compose test cases, you will need BizUnit to run the test cases using the test harness. To download BizUnit, go to http://www.codeplex.com/bizunit.

The idea of coming up with a GUI for BizUnit was originally evangelized by the BizTalk guru - Benny Mathew (http://geekswithblogs.net/benny/Default.aspx) who also happens to be my good friend and colleague.

Frequently Asked Questions

If you are stuck with a question or an issue with BizUnit Designer, there is a good possibility that it is answered in the FAQ located at faq

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praneethreddy — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:19:02 GMT

CREATED RELEASE: BizUnit Designer 1.2 (Apr 01, 2008)

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:49:15 GMT

*Changes in 1.2*
* Fixed a major bug in the Test harness which was causing errors on Windows Server 2003
* Changed the missing required elements error into a warning
* Added a [faq] page

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praneethreddy — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:44:57 GMT

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