Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Save more on your purchases! discount-offer-chevron-icon
Savings automatically calculated. No voucher code required.
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
Testing with f#

You're reading from   Testing with f# Deliver high-quality, bug-free applications by testing them with efficient and expressive functional programming

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784391232
Length 286 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
Mikael Lundin Mikael Lundin
Author Profile Icon Mikael Lundin
Mikael Lundin
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. The Practice of Test Automation FREE CHAPTER 2. Writing Testable Code with Functional Programming 3. Setting Up Your Test Environment 4. Unit Testing 5. Integration Testing 6. Functional Testing 7. The Controversy of Test Automation 8. Testing in an Agile Context 9. Test Smells 10. The Ten Commandments of Test Automation Index

Testing with Visual Studio

So far, we've been talking about interactive testing with F#. This is a basic concept in starting to write qualitative code, but what this book really is about is test automation.

Visual Studio Professional comes with some basic testing tools you can use to automate testing in your solution. They are, however, not made to work with F# and need some fiddling before you could begin using them, as explained in the following steps:

  1. Create a new F# library project:
    Testing with Visual Studio
  2. Add a reference to Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestingFramework. This will later be referred to as MSTest:
    Testing with Visual Studio
  3. Create a new F# source file in your project with the fs extension. Now, you can write your first test, as follows:
    module MSTest 
        open Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting 
        [<TestClass>] type CalculatorShould () = 
            [<TestMethod>] member this.``add 1 and 2 with result of 3`` () = Assert.AreEqual(3, 1 + 2)
  4. After compiling the test, go to Test | Run All Tests...
lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime
Banner background image