DotNetNuke Unit Testing Facilities and Tutorials

Question

What is the standard, best practice way to perform unit testing in a dotnetnuke app? I have searched SO as well as the dnn website, and wasn't able to find much info about this. I assume dnn has something baked in for doing unit tests, or at the very least a library that can be plugged in. Where can I find more info? A tutorial on the subject would be ideal, but any resource at all would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Answer 1

There isn't much information on testing within DotNetNuke. Being a WebForms based project, it hasn't been a strong concern of many of the developers in the community.

For examples, you can look at the unit testing projects within DNN's source, which have a number of different approaches used. They use MbUnit and Moq for unit testing, as well as Watin for testing the web frontent.

The main technique for making testable modules is to use the WebForms MVP integration, so that you have testable, loosely-coupled presenters that you can inject dependencies into easily. There's the start of a sample module on codeplex, but it's never been fully fleshed out. However, it does has some good background on its project page.

Answer 2

For a data-driven unit testing approach, be aware of following:

• Create app.config file for unit test project and copy sections related to "data", "caching" from web.config of DNN web app

• Install caching provider before running any tests: ComponentFactory.InstallComponents(New ProviderInstaller("caching", GetType(CachingProvider)))