Silverlight 5 VS 2012 Unit Tests

Question

For last couple hours i have been trying to generate a Unit Test for a Silverlight application.

A number of posts refer to a "Silverlight Unit Test Project" which is part of the Silverlight Toolkit. But I downloaded the toolkit and still do not have the Test Project, it seems to be only available in VS 2010?

I have added a "Silverlight Class Library" project and added references to:

1. Microsoft.Silverlight.Testing
2. Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTesting.Silverlight

and the following TestClass:

using Microsoft.Silverlight.Testing;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;

namespace UnitTesting
{
    [TestClass]
    public class Class
    {

        [TestMethod]
        public void TestMethod()
        {
            .....    
        }
    }
}

But there are no tests being discovered by Visual Studio 2012 Test Explorer. Even after re-build of solution and restart of application.

Anyone have any ideas? Is this even possible?

Answer 1

This link has the answer that worked for me:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/5e991b0d-8061-4c4e-a17d-82b4abd58d6c/vs-2012-silverlight-unittest

I recommend starting a new Silverlight project and installing the SilverlightToolkit-Testing NuGet package. In your test files, put in usings for Microsoft.Silverlight.Testing and Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting and use regular [TestClass] and [TestMethod] attributes. To run them, you can use the Toolkit test runner by putting RootVisual = UnitTestSystem.CreateTestPage(); in your App.Application_Startup(), use Silverlight Unit Test Adapter (which currently is at v0.0.1 and doesn't really work), or (the best approach by far) install ReSharper and the AgUnit plugin.

Answer 2

To complete this thread,

The Silverlight DLLS are located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Silverlight\v5.0\Toolkit\dec11\Testing

I could not get Resharper 7.1 to run the tests but this library helped. You will need to extract using 7-zip so that the DLLS are not blocked. Then restart Visual Studio 2012 and Resharper will run your unit tests.