I have Action method in a controller which uses RedirectToAction(actionName, routeValues[])I want to write the unit test for action method to check the following - 1. action name2. ViewData after executing the RedirectToAction.
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In my project we use UnitTests (MsTest). We run them manually and in the build script.But for some environments where we deploy manually.We are in the need of having some smoke tests. At the moment I made this smoke tests "manually" (Login, create an user, create a licence, create a product, etc). I know I can run unit tests from command line or from visual studio but...Do you know if is possible to run these mstests (or probably a small subset) from an .aspx page and show the results?EDITED: wondering if mstests or something is able to run the tests and have something visual to show in an .aspx page similar to a list of tests passed and tests failed...I am thinking on running only a small subset of tests (5-6)
View 1 RepliesI have a simple page with a Grid that I'm binding a collection of objects to. I also have some simple functionality on the grid to edit and save rows. I would like to write unit tests for this page, but it's not really making sense to me.For example:
Private Sub LoadGrid()
'Populate Collection
grid.datasource = MyCollection
grid.databind()
end sub
I guess a Sub really doesn't need a unit test, but what if this were a function that returned true when the grid had been loaded. How do you write a unit test for this? What other test should be done on a simple web page like this?
I need to fake HttpContext.Current.Application table to access it from my unit tests.I need to store my data somewhere. I thought that I can just pass instance of NameValueCollectionBase but as I descover this base type has no indexer so it's too complicated to use. So what about faking this part of HttpContext? Is it possible? How can I make it? Will be NUnit.
View 2 RepliesI'm developing a website in asp.net webforms with 3 layers; UI, BLL and DAL.The website is already developed, but i like have more control about the unit tests of each form Pass specific values at specific inputs for i see, if application survives or not.
I already study about NUnit but in webforms in UI layer how can apply these tests?What i wnat is get some way to test UI (validations) without have to access to the BLL as i was an user.
I'm trying to add the Unit tests to my app but i not sure how to do it!
As stated in http://forums.asp.net/t/1535916.aspx the unit tests are missing from the ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM source code, but are available on CodePlex at
http://aspnet.codeplex.com/releases/view/41742).
After installing ASP.NET MVC2 RTM on Visual Web Developer 2008 Express, apparently unit tests are not enabled for VWD - when I create a new MVC2 project I don't get the "Create Unit Test Project" dialog box where I can say"Yes, create a unit test project".(I thought I was presented with that dialog box in earlier versions of either MVC2 RC or MVC1, but maybe not...)
Given the source code on codeplex, is it possible to use that to enable unit tests for MVC2 for VWD Express? If so, are the steps one have to take detailed somewhere?
I want to write a unit test which tests the function of a class called UploadedFile. The problem I face is this class' static constructor uses HttpContext.Current property and because I am running my unit test from a class library I do not have an HttpContext at the testing time.
Look at my static constructor:
static UploadedFile()
{
if (HttpContext.Current == null)[code]....
What should I do in my testing environment so that HttpContext.Current won't be null and I can successfully set this:
HttpServerUtility server = HttpContext.Current.Server;
Fo unit testing ASP.NET controls I need a stubbed Page.
I can create an ASP.NET Page object in my unit tests by subclassing System.Web.UI.Page.However, I cannot find a way to set Page.Form. Adding a form with attribute (runat,server)does not work. Overloading the form in my Subclass does not give the required functionality.
Context:I try to unit test some homemade ASP.NET controls. These control require Page and Page.Form not to be null.
I need a Continuous integration tool that will support both .Net Unit tests and Javascript unit tests and perform the builds.It looks like my main options are CruiseControl.NET using JUnit and NUnit or Team City and JS Test Driver.
Are there any other options and which ones have you used or had good or bad experiences with.
I have a unit test that reads from an .xml file and it works fine on my local machine.However, in TFS when I create a new build it gives the following exception:
Failed GetArticleByIdTestOptimal Test method Test.ArticleSystemTest.GetArticleByIdTestOptimal threw exception: System.Xml.XmlException: ImportFromFile filePath=[.Articles1to5.xml]. ---> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'c:uildareaTestResults fservice
2010-10-19 11_52_19_Any CPU_ReleaseOutArticles1to5.xml'..
Is there some reason why a unit test could pass locally but not in TFS? I've verified that the file is on the build server.
I recently came accross the following article on Stephen Walther's website
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Basically, it provides some excellent guidance on how to integrate your Javascript tests into Visual Studio. I followed the steps in the article and successfully managed to test Javascript methods using Visual Studio tests.
I am unable however to unit test JQuery methods (I get errors such as "window" undefined). I was wondering if anyone has successfully managed to test jQuery methods on the server using the above link?
I'm just starting to use the TestHelpers in MvcContrib. I want to try and test an action method on my controller that itself tests if IsAjaxRequest() is true. I've used the same code that is shown in the TestHelper samples to set up the TestControllerBuilder
_controller = new StarsController();
_builder = new TestControllerBuilder();
_builder.InitializeController(_controller);
So that _controller has all the faked/mocked HttpContext inside it, which is really great. But what do I do now to force IsAjaxRequest() on the internally faked Request object to return true?
I have a custom actionfilter that strips out the whitespaces before the html is rendered in browser and it is working fine. However I have been unable to unit test the custom action filter. Ideally I want to do an assert on the sample html that all whitespaces have been removed. Code looks something like this.
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I'm using VSTS 2K8 and I've set up a Unit Test Project. In it, I have a test class with a method that does a simple assertion. I'm using an Excel 2007 spreadsheet as my data source.
My test method looks like this:
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As indicated in the method decoration attributes, my Excel spreadsheet is on my local C:/ Drive. In it, the sheet where all of my data is located is named "Sheet1".I've copied the Excel spreadsheet into my project and I've set its Build Action = "Content" and I've set its Copy to Output Directory = "Copy if Newer".
When trying to run this simple unit test, I receive the following error:
The unit test adapter failed to connect to the data source or to read the data. For more information on troubleshooting this error, see "Troubleshooting Data-Driven Unit Tests" (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=62412) in the MSDN Library. Error details: ERROR [42S02] [Microsoft][ODBC Excel Driver] The Microsoft Office Access database engine could not find the object 'Sheet1'. Make sure the object exists and that you spell its name and the path name correctly.
I've verified that the sheet name is spelled correctly (i.e. Sheet1) and I've verified that my data sources are set correctly.Web searches haven't turned up much at all.
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i want to make some questions about asp.net MVC,actually,i am not familiar with web developing.
But,i am assigned for web part.we are using like this.first,we create get set
properties for person data
public class Person
{
public int personID {get;set;}
public string personName {get;set;}
public string nric {get;set;}
}
and then after login,we put data in that class and we use RedirectToAction method like this,
return RedirectToAction("profile","person",new { personID = Person.personID});
it's working normally,but,parameter are shown at URL,how i hide them and also can i hide action name?
I have created a custom validation attribute for a class. The validation is actually against one property of the class, but since it needs to be compared to another property of the class at runtime, I had to pull in everything from the input form, perform the validation and output the errors. This being the case, I manually added a ModelError to ModelState if the ModelStats.IsValid returned false. I have another thread that goes into this, as I still haven't been able to make the client-side validation work for the custom validation (built-in validation runs client-side without a problem).
Here's the issue: I want to use the Post/Redirect/Get pattern to avoid issues where users refresh their page and cause another post of the form data. If I complete my Controller action and return a View after assigning an error with ModelState.AddModelError, I get the user feedback with the red input field and error message shown. However, just returning a View like this makes you vulnerable to the repeated posts issue. I want to use RedirectToAction to perform a get and avoid this problem, but when I do that I no longer have the ModelState error feedback on my rendered View. Here're the calls I'm making:
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I'd like to be able to redirect to a get action and retain the ModelState.
I want to pass a int value using RedirectToAction() method .
Here i have a Action method Index() which takes 1 parameter id in most of the cases this id cannot be null.
When i submit the form using Action method Edit(), i want to come again on Index page,so i am using method RedirectToAction("Index")
but here with Action Name i want to pass the id also. How can i do it?
I wish to do something like this:
return RedirectToAction<SomeController>(c => Index(someparameter));
How to do this ?
I use the RedirectToAction with parameters in my action method
return RedirectToAction("ListThreads", "View", new { category = "1", subcategory = "49"});
After redirect the url comes out like this
http://domain/Forum/View/ListThreads?category=1&subcategory=49
I want it to be generated like
http://domain/Forum/View/ListThreads/1/49
How to do it?
Note : I already have a route in global.asax that is used by all the pages/links.
context.MapRoute(
"Forum_subcategory",
"Forum/{controller}/{action}/{category}/{subcategory}",
new { controller = "View", action = "ListThreads", category = "", subcategory = "" }
);
I've a class that hold all the necessary properties. I want to pass the instance of that class in RedirectToAction. Right now, I can pass the instance but the action to which it redirect, doesn't receive that same instance. The target action has new instance of class.
eg.
AbcFilter a = new AbcFilter();
a.ABCname="abc";
RedirectToAction("AbcAction",a);
Public ActionResult AbcAction(AbcFilter a)
{// this method receives the "a" as new instance, but not the same that I pass in RedirectToAction
}
I've been using MVC since the previews of 1.0 and I think I know what I'm doing, but for the life of me I can not figure out why sometimes when I use RedirectToAction it crashes saying there is no route available. Consider this in MVC 2.0:
I'm registering on my site and I first hit the SiteController, which does its magic then I am to be redirected to my new dashboard, controlled by the... DashboardController. I never make it there. I specify the action and the controller in the redirect call, but it still crashes and burns. The only thing I can possible think of is because the DashboardController is its own area, but that still doesn't help me because by my understanding it should still work regardless.
I've been trying to get the strongly typed version of RedirectToAction from the MVC Futures project to work, but I've been getting no where. Below are the steps I've followed, and the errors I've encountered.
I created a new MVC2 app and changed the About action on the HomeController to redirect to the Index page.
Return RedirectToAction("Index")
However, I wanted to use the strongly typed extensions, so I downloaded the MVC Futures from CodePlex and added a reference to Microsoft.Web.Mvc to my project.
I addded the following "import" statement to the top of HomeContoller.vb
Imports Microsoft.Web.Mvc
I commented out the above RedirectToAction and added the following line:
Return RedirectToAction(Of HomeController)(Function(c) c.Index())
So far, so good. However, I noticed if I uncomment out the first (non Generic) RedirectToAction, it was now causing the following compile error:
Error 1 Overload resolution failed because no accessible 'RedirectToAction' can be called with these arguments:
Extension method 'Public Function RedirectToAction(Of TController)(action As System.Linq.Expressions.Expression(Of System.Action(Of TController))) As System.Web.Mvc.RedirectToRouteResult' defined in 'Microsoft.Web.Mvc.ControllerExtensions': Data type(s) of the type parameter(s) cannot be >inferred from these arguments. Specifying the data type(s) explicitly might correct this error.
Extension method 'Public Function RedirectToAction(action As System.Linq.Expressions.Expression(Of System.Action(Of HomeController))) As System.Web.Mvc.RedirectToRouteResult' defined in 'Microsoft.Web.Mvc.ControllerExtensions': Value of type 'String' cannot be converted to 'System.Linq.Expressions.Expression(Of System.Action(Of mvc2test1.HomeController))'.
Even though intelli-sense was showing 8 overloads (the original 6 non-generic overloads, plus the 2 new generic overloads from the Futures assembly), it seems when trying to complie the code, the compiler would only 'find' the 2 non-gneneric extension methods from the Futures assessmbly.
I thought this might be an issue that I was using conflicting versions of the MVC2 assembly, and the futures assembly, so I added MvcDiaganotics.aspx from the Futures download to my project and everytyhing looked correct:
ASP.NET MVC Assembly Information (System.Web.Mvc.dll)
Assembly version: ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM (2.0.50217.0)
Full name: System.Web.Mvc, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35
Code base: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL/System.Web.Mvc/2.0.0.0__31bf3856ad364e35/System.Web.Mvc.dll
Deployment: GAC-deployed
ASP.NET MVC Futures Assembly Information (Microsoft.Web.Mvc.dll)
Assembly version: ASP.NET MVC 2 RTM Futures (2.0.50217.0)
Full name: Microsoft.Web.Mvc, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null
Code base: file:///xxxx/bin/Microsoft.Web.Mvc.DLL
Deployment: bin-deployed
This is driving me crazy! Becuase I thought this might be some VB issue, I created a new MVC2 project using C# and tried the same as above.
I added the following "using" statement to the top of HomeController.cs
using Microsoft.Web.Mvc;
This time, in the About action method, I could only manage to call the non-generic RedirectToAction by typing the full commmand as follows:
return Microsoft.Web.Mvc.ControllerExtensions.RedirectToAction<HomeController>(this, c => c.Index());
Even though I had a "using" statement at the top of the class, if I tried to call the non-generic RedirectToAction as follows:
return RedirectToAction<HomeController>(c => c.Index());
I would get the following compile error:
Error 1 The non-generic method 'System.Web.Mvc.Controller.RedirectToAction(string)' cannot be used with type arguments
What gives? It's not like I'm trying to do anything out of the ordinary.It's a simple vanilla MVC2 project with only a reference to the Futures assembly.
I'm hoping that I've missed out something obvious, but I've been scratching my head for too long, so I figured I'd seek some assisstance.
If anyone's managed to get this simple scenario working (in VB and/or C#)
i built an MVC application, in one of my views, i'm activating an ActionResult using JQuery.$post in this ActionResult i'm using RdirectToAction to another ActionResult, this ActionResult is really reached and executed, but when i'm trying to use another RdirectToAction from here, its not happened.
View 6 RepliesI am new to MVC2 and have hit a wall. When I use an action link to jump back to a previous page that I have already been on, my controller is not called but the page is rendered correctly. Is this some sort of caching that I am not aware of? This also happens with a RedirectToAction call from another Controller. rfm is the Model...
return RedirectToAction("Search", rfm);
Here is the actionlink...
<%: Html.ActionLink("Search", "Search", "Reference")%>
I have the following ActionResult() method:
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The method is called once the <form> is submitted. If the validation is good, it moves on to create a new user Once the new user is created, I want to redirect the user to a "ThankYou" page passing along the newly created user (object). The TempData["User"] trick seems to work like a charm! Then inside my ThankYou ActionResult() I do the following:
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The problem I have is once the user has been redirected to the "ThankYou" page. If he decides to refresh (F5) his browser, the value in the TempData is lost.
What are my possibilities to overcome this issue?
Instead of passing an entire object to my "ThankYou" page, I initially thought of passing the ID of the newly created user and re-query my database to get the object.
The only problem is that the ID will be seen in the QueryString allowing the user to simply change the ID value and try to find other users...
Is my only other alternative to simply place the user object inside a Session? Is that my only other option?
