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From: Chris Tacke, MVP on 17 Feb 2010 18:13 The Emulator has an automation interface, so I created a library that can be called directly from a msbuild targets file. When I do a nightly build it kills any running emulator and launches a new one. -Chris "aryaabraham" <aryaabraham(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:BDCE998F-244A-4476-A26E-3BECEB037D19(a)microsoft.com... > Chris, > > Thank you for taking the time to answer my question. I have a follow up > question on your emulator library. > > What do you do in the emulator library to start up the emulator? Do you > connect out to the real hardware to run your tests? I can see how that > would > be very useful especially if I could collect OS profiling data in parallel > to > look for memory or resource leaks. > > If I find that test coverage is a problem I could run seperate regression > tests on a PC, for specific classes, as both you and drozd had mentioned. > > Sincerely > Arya > > "Chris Tacke, MVP" wrote: > >> You can run them against the desktop if the code they are testing isn't >> dependent on device info, but it's a bit of a challenge because the test >> assemblies are going to have references to the device test >> infrastructure. >> The way around that is to create a separate desktop test project or maybe >> modify the overall test configuration. >> >> I do a fair amount of device testing and I actually have the TFS server >> spin >> up the emulator (I've written an emulator library that the targets file >> can >> launch before running tests) and actually run against it. I've also had >> it >> run against actual hardware. Since the TFS server is really doing >> regression testing (the developer should be ensuring the tests run and >> pass >> locally in the first place) I find it's extremely valuable to have the >> server testing against the actual OS rather than trying to shortcut it >> and >> test against the desktop. >> >> -Chris >> >> >> "aryaabraham" <aryaabraham(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message >> news:16200ED3-033B-4AE8-8E31-F059F88877E2(a)microsoft.com... >> > Hi, >> > >> > Is there any way to run .net CF application unit tests on a PC or a VS >> > Team >> > System Server without an emulator? I would like to leverage the code >> > coverage >> > capabilities of recent versions of VS Team Systems. >> > >> > Does anybody have any experience running automated regression tests on >> > a >> > CF >> > application? >> > >> > Sincerely >> > Arya >>
From: aryaabraham on 17 Feb 2010 18:43 Thank you. That will definitely help. Sincerely Arya "Chris Tacke, MVP" wrote: > The Emulator has an automation interface, so I created a library that can be > called directly from a msbuild targets file. When I do a nightly build it > kills any running emulator and launches a new one. > > -Chris > > > "aryaabraham" <aryaabraham(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:BDCE998F-244A-4476-A26E-3BECEB037D19(a)microsoft.com... > > Chris, > > > > Thank you for taking the time to answer my question. I have a follow up > > question on your emulator library. > > > > What do you do in the emulator library to start up the emulator? Do you > > connect out to the real hardware to run your tests? I can see how that > > would > > be very useful especially if I could collect OS profiling data in parallel > > to > > look for memory or resource leaks. > > > > If I find that test coverage is a problem I could run seperate regression > > tests on a PC, for specific classes, as both you and drozd had mentioned. > > > > Sincerely > > Arya > > > > "Chris Tacke, MVP" wrote: > > > >> You can run them against the desktop if the code they are testing isn't > >> dependent on device info, but it's a bit of a challenge because the test > >> assemblies are going to have references to the device test > >> infrastructure. > >> The way around that is to create a separate desktop test project or maybe > >> modify the overall test configuration. > >> > >> I do a fair amount of device testing and I actually have the TFS server > >> spin > >> up the emulator (I've written an emulator library that the targets file > >> can > >> launch before running tests) and actually run against it. I've also had > >> it > >> run against actual hardware. Since the TFS server is really doing > >> regression testing (the developer should be ensuring the tests run and > >> pass > >> locally in the first place) I find it's extremely valuable to have the > >> server testing against the actual OS rather than trying to shortcut it > >> and > >> test against the desktop. > >> > >> -Chris > >> > >> > >> "aryaabraham" <aryaabraham(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > >> news:16200ED3-033B-4AE8-8E31-F059F88877E2(a)microsoft.com... > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > Is there any way to run .net CF application unit tests on a PC or a VS > >> > Team > >> > System Server without an emulator? I would like to leverage the code > >> > coverage > >> > capabilities of recent versions of VS Team Systems. > >> > > >> > Does anybody have any experience running automated regression tests on > >> > a > >> > CF > >> > application? > >> > > >> > Sincerely > >> > Arya > >> >
From: Simon Hart [MVP] on 20 Feb 2010 21:01
Code coverage doesn't work for device test configs anyway. Just incase you didn't know why it doesn't work. -- Simon Hart Visual Developer - Device Application Development MVP http://www.simonrhart.com "aryaabraham" wrote: > Thank you. > > If I want to run code coverage I shall take your suggestion to stub out any > OS/hardware specific calls and then run the tests against the desktop version > of the .net framework. > > Arya > > "drozd" wrote: > > > On Feb 17, 12:41 am, aryaabraham > > <aryaabra...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Is there any way to run .net CF application unit tests on a PC or a VS Team > > > System Server without an emulator? I would like to leverage the code coverage > > > capabilities of recent versions of VS Team Systems. > > > > > > Does anybody have any experience running automated regression tests on a CF > > > application? > > > > > > Sincerely > > > Arya > > > > I'm assuming you mean MSTest tests. You can configure a test runner > > configuration that will run the tests on the local computer using > > full .NET Framework. The advantages are that you don't need a device > > or emulator and the tests run really fast. The downside is that if > > some of your tests exercise some device specific libraries (or P/ > > Invokes) then they will fail (however, in most cases you should > > probably stub out these dependencies anyway). > > > > It is also possible to check test coverage when doing this test run. > > > > I haven't tried it yet, but I think it should be pretty > > straightforward to include such a run of the tests using MSBuild in > > your TFS build script. > > > > . > > |