I have seen in a Microsoft video about Visual Studio update 2 regarding these attributes. However, I can't find any other information about them and can't get a project to build with them.
Does anyone know anything about these attributes or how to get them working?
[DataTestMethod]
[DataRow("a", "b")]
[DataRow(" ", "a")]
public void TestMethod1(string value1, string value2)
{
Assert.AreEqual(value1 + value2, string.Concat(value1, value2));
}
There is a good walkthrough originally published at https://blogs.msmvps.com/bsonnino/2017/03/18/parametrized-tests-with-ms-test (link is now to archive by wayback machine).
In a nutshell, you will need to install MSTest.TestFramework
and MSTest.TestAdapter
, and remove references to Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework
. You can then indicate a parameterised test with the [DataTestMethod]
attribute, and can add your parameters using the [DataRow]
attribute, as per your example. The values from the [DataRow]
attribute will be passed to the test method in the order in which they are specified.
Note that the values in the [DataRow]
attribute must be primitives, so you can't use a DateTime
or decimal
for example. If you want them, you will have to work around this limitation (e.g. instead of having a DateTime
parameter to represent a date, you could have three integer parameters representing year, month and day, and create the DateTime
within the test body).
Finally, this feature has been added (still in pre-release) https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudioalm/2016/06/17/taking-the-mstest-framework-forward-with-mstest-v2/
Basically, one has to do two things:
1) Install two NuGet packages (versions don't really matter, but this is what I have)
<package id="MSTest.TestAdapter" version="1.1.5-preview" targetFramework="net452" />
<package id="MSTest.TestFramework" version="1.0.6-preview" targetFramework="net452" />
2) Remove the refenrece to the old test library, because it has the same attributes defined in the same namespaces - this was done to achieve backwards compatibility
Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework
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