NUnitAsp

NUnitAsp is a tool for automatically testing ASP.NET web pages. It's an extension to NUnit, a tool for test-driven development in .NET.

How it works

NUnitAsp is a class library for use within NUnit tests. It provides NUnit with the ability to download, parse, and manipulate ASP.NET web pages.

With NUnitASP, tests do not need to know how ASP.NET renders controls into HTML. Instead, NUnitASP library can do this, keeping the test code simple and clean. For example, tests don't need to know that a DataGrid control renders as an HTML table; NUnitASP handles the details. This gives users freedom to focus on functionality questions, like whether the DataGrid holds the expected values.

  [Test]
  public void TestExample()
  {
    // First, instantiate "Tester" objects:
    LabelTester label = new LabelTester("textLabel", CurrentWebForm);
    LinkButtonTester link = new LinkButtonTester("linkButton", CurrentWebForm);
    // Second, visit the page being tested:
    Browser.GetPage("http://localhost/example/example.aspx");
    // Third, use tester objects to test the page:
    AssertEquals("Not clicked.", label.Text);
    link.Click();
    AssertEquals("Clicked once.", label.Text);
    link.Click();
    AssertEquals("Clicked twice.", label.Text);
  }

NUnitAsp can test complex web sites involving multiple pages and nested controls.

Credits and history

NUnitAsp was created by Brian Knowles as a simple way to read and manipulate web documents with NUnit. Jim Shore (known at the time as "Jim Little") took over the project shortly afterwards and refactored it to the Tester-based approach used for the first release. Since then, more than a dozen people have contributed to the product. In November 2003, Levi Khatskevitch joined the team as "patch king" and brought new energy to the project, leading to the long-anticipated release of version 1.4. On January 31, 2008, Jim Shore announced the end of its development.

See also

• NUnit
• Test automation

External links

• NunitAsp Homepage