Web Testing with MbUnit and WatiN Part 2: Controlling Localhost and IIS Express

Web Testing with MbUnit and WatiN Part 2: Controlling Localhost and IIS Express

One important aspect of web testing which is not so often discussed in blogs or articles is how to run tests against a web project running in debug mode on the local host. Microsoft provides two options to let you debug web projects locally: the Visual Studio development server and IIS Express. In this second part of our series on writing web integration tests, we’re going to demonstrate how to use the WebTestServer<T> class to start either server from within a running test suite.
In this article, you will

• Create a simple one page website project for testing
• Create a web test project that tests it against the VS Development Server
• Alter the website and test project to test the page using IIS Express.

Web Testing with MbUnit and WatiN Part 1: Keeping Your Tests Legible | developerFusion

Web Testing with MbUnit and WatiN Part 1: Keeping Your Tests Legible

We’re all quite comfortable writing unit tests to verify that a piece of code does what we think it should do, and there are many test frameworks to enable this activity. One solid solution for going one step further and writing powerful integration tests for .NET web applications is to combine WatiN, an informal .NET port of the WatiR open-source (BSD) family of Ruby libraries for automating web browsers, with the Gallio automation framework and MbUnit test library.