Using xUnit

Telerik Testing Framework comes with built-in support for xUnit.net 1.8 and higher. The latest release of xUnit can be downloaded here.

Telerik Automation Infrastructure comes with the following features to facilitate integration with xUnit.net:

• Telerik Testing Framework comes with a BaseTest base class under its TestTemplates namespace that can be used as the base class for all your Telerik automation tests running under xUnit.net. The base class provides the following integration features:

• Telerik settings can be read directly from the app.Config of your test project. This allows you to configure your Telerik tests using the same .config file that you might be using to store your connection strings or other settings for your test suite.

• When installing Telerik Testing Framework, a new fully commented xUnit.net item template will be added to your list of available templates. This will enable you to start using Telerik by simply selecting it from the Add->New Item tool menu (or context menu) available to your VS project. You are provided with both a C# and a VB.NET template.

Getting Started Using xUnit.net

In this section we will walk you through the steps to get you started using Telerik Testing Framework with xUnit.net.

• Once you have completed installing Telerik Testing Framework on the target machine, start your Visual Studio environment and open your xUnit.net test library in Visual Studio or create a new one if you are starting from scratch.

• Once you have created the project, select the project node in the Solution Explorer and right-click. Then select Add->New Item... (NOTE: Do not use Add->New Test)

• Visual Studio will pop-up the Add New Item dialog as shown below.

• Expand the Test node displayed on the left then select Telerik Testing Framework. You should see four templates as shown in the image above.

• Select the xUnit template.

• Enter a name for your test and click Add.

• At this point, you should have a new test added to your project and you should be ready to go. The template will automatically add a reference of ArtOfTest.WebAii.dll to your project that contains the Telerik infrastructure and all the initialization and clean-up routines will be setup in your new unit test file.

• If you haven't already done so, you'll need to manually add a reference to the xunit.dll.

• Start writing your automated Telerik Testing Framework unit tests.

Telerik's xUnit Template

Telerik xUnit.net tests inherit from a base test class called BaseTest that lives in the ArtOfTest.WebAii.TestTemplate namespace. The base class, in addition to providing the integration benefits described above, provides:

• Short-cuts to the commonly used objects within your test code. For example, instead of always typing Manager.ActiveBrowser.Find, there is a first class Find object exposed off the BaseTest class that is set to the Manager.ActiveBrowser.Find instance. The following are the objects and their short-cuts that the base class provides:

Object reference	Shortcut name
Manager.ActiveBrowser	ActiveBrowser
Manager.ActiveBrowser.Find	Find
Manager.ActiveBrowser.Actions	Actions
Manager.Desktop	Desktop
Manager.Log	Log
Manager	Manager

• Takes care of creating the Manager object and setting up all the above short cuts.

• Reads the .config file (if available) and reads the Telerik settings from it and initializes Telerik Testing Framework according to these settings.

• The base class also offers different options that you might want to choose from depending on the scenarios and your testing environment. The Telerik template installed on your machines, by default uses the following initialization:

Initialize(false);

Initialize(False)

The above initialization initializes the Telerik Testing Framework but does not enable the RecycleBrowser feature. Because xUnit.net does not have the concept of a test fixture setup/teardown the RecycleBrowser feature cannot be used. If that initialization does not work for you, you can choose to pass in different parameters or choose to do your own custom setup of the framework. For example, if you want to override some of the settings from the .config file in one or two of your test cases, you can simply do the following:

// This will get a new Settings object. If a configuration
// section exists, then settings from that section will be
// loaded

Settings settings = GetSettings();

// Override the settings you want. For example:
settings.DefaultBrowser = BrowserType.FireFox;

// Now call Initialize with your updated settings object
Initialize(settings);

' This will get a new Settings object. If a configuration
' section exists, then settings from that section will be
' loaded

Dim mySettings As Settings = GetSettings()

' Override the settings you want. For example:
mySettings.DefaultBrowser = BrowserType.FireFox

' Now call Initialize with your updated settings object
Initialize(mySettings)

For more information on Telerik Testing Framework's settings & configuration please refer to the Settings and Configuration topic.

Starting Automation

[Test]
[Description("My simple demo")]
public void SimpleTest()
{
     // Launch an instance of the browser
     Manager.LaunchNewBrowser();

     // Navigate to google.com
     ActiveBrowser.NavigateTo("http://www.google.com");

     // verify the title is actually Google.
     Assert.AreEqual("Google", ActiveBrowser.Find.ByTagIndex("title", 0).InnerText);
}

<Test(), _
Description("My simple demo")> _
Public Sub SimpleTest()

     ' Launch an instance of the browser
     Manager.LaunchNewBrowser()

     ' Navigate to google.com
     ActiveBrowser.NavigateTo("http://www.google.com")

     ' verify the title is actually Google.
     Assert.AreEqual("Google", ActiveBrowser.Find.ByTagIndex("title", 0).InnerText)

End Sub