nunitasp-announce — NUnitAsp release announcements only. This is a very low-traffic list.

[Nunitasp-announce] End of NUnitAsp development

[Jim S. <js...@ja...>]

Hi all,

I'm making it official: I am no longer maintaining or supporting  
NUnitAsp.

I've been neglecting NUnitAsp for several years, so I doubt this is a  
surprise.  I originally wrote NUnitAsp in 2002 (starting with a seed  
provided by Brian Knowles), before .NET was even out of beta, to  
solve the problem of unit testing ASP.NET code for a portal  
application.  As the portal grew more complex, so did NUnitAsp.  But  
this approach always led to holes in NUnitAsp--the features of  
ASP.NET I didn't use didn't get any love.  One big example: I always  
worked strictly in the ASP.NET component model, so my pages never had  
more than one form and I didn't use HTML or Javascript directly.

That project ended years ago, but I kept NUnitAsp alive, even though  
I haven't written any ASP.NET code for a long time.  The NUnitAsp  
v2.0 release last year was my last attempt to fill in the big holes.   
Now it supports multiple forms, has a simpler syntax, and it tests  
HTML as well as ASP.NET server-side components.

NUnitAsp still has some dramatic flaws: no support for Javascript,  
tests running in a different process than ASP.NET, difficulty setting  
up sessions.  Most people ended up using it for acceptance testing,  
rather than unit testing, and Selenium, Watir, and the like are  
better for that.  Most folks "in the know" are using presentation  
layers to make ASP.NET so thin that a tool like NUnitAsp isn't helpful.

Despite these flaws, I think NUnitAsp is an interesting tool.  I'm  
proud of the code and the API.  If nothing else, it's a good example  
of what a dedicated agilist will do when faced with a brand-new  
platform: he finds a way to unit test it.

If you would like to take over development of NUnitAsp, and you have  
name recognition in the community, I will be happy to hand it over to  
you.  If I don't recognize you, feel free to fork the code.  When  
your fork is successful, let me know, and I will give you the keys to  
the "official" project.  NUnitAsp still gets between one and two  
thousand downloads per month, so it's not quite dead yet.

Thanks for your interest in NUnitAsp and in sticking with me over the  
years.  I'm not going away, of course--I just have other projects  
that are occupying my time.  I write about them at http:// 
jamesshore.com.

Best wishes,
Jim

--
James Shore, Titanium I.T. LLC
co-author of The Art of Agile Development--now available!

voice: 503-267-5490
email: js...@ja...
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[Nunitasp-announce] [ANN] NUnitAsp v2.0 released

[Jim S. <js...@ja...>]

I'm happy to announce the release of NUnitAsp v2.0.  NUnitAsp is a  
tool for test-driven development of ASP.NET code-behind.

NUnitAsp 2.0 contains a significant set of improvements over 1.5.1.   
The most important new features are:

     *  Tests ASP.NET 2.0.
     * Works with any version of any testing framework.
     * Supports multiple forms.
     * Tests can directly modify form variables, submit forms, and  
post-back forms.
     * Added a boatload of new testers, including a generic tester  
for any HTML tag.
     * Supports using XPath to find HTML tags.
     * Removed need to use CurrentWebForm parameter.
     * Added Advanced NUnitAsp video.

NUnitAsp v2.0 is available for download at: https://sourceforge.net/ 
project/showfiles.php?group_id=49940.

A detailed change log may be found at: http:// 
nunitasp.sourceforge.net/changes.txt

The NUnitAsp website is at http://nunitasp.sourceforge.net.

James Shore
Project Coordinator
NUnitAsp

[Nunitasp-announce] NUnitAsp 2.0--coming soon!

[Jim S. <js...@ti...>]

The next version of NUnitAsp has so many changes, I'm calling it 2.0.  
Here's some of the major new features that we've already added:

* Works with any test tool, including any version of NUnit.
* No longer requires you to pass "CurrentWebForm" when instantiating 
testers.
* Allows tests to directly modify and access form variables without 
using a tester.
* Allows tests to directly postback and submit forms without using a tester.
* Supports pages with multiple forms.
* Adds testers for nearly all HTML tags.
* Allows HTML testers to be instantiated by XPath as well as ID.
* Adds a tester for ASP.NET Repeater control
* And even more to come!

We'll be using the new version of NUnitAsp in our Test-Driven ASP.NET 
course later this month.  Everybody who attends will get a beta release 
to take home.  Of course, there's better reasons to attend, like our 
in-depth coverage of TDD, test-beds, and mock objects with NUnitAsp and 
ASP.NET.  There's only two weeks left until the course, so register 
today: http://nunitasp.sourceforge.net/tdd-course.html

Cheers,
Jim

PS: I've tried out .NET 2.0 and NUnitAsp works with a few minor tweaks.  
Expect a release that supports both versions of ASP.NET sometime after 
the official release of .NET 2.0.

-- 
James Shore--Titanium IT--Recipient of 2005 Gordon Pask award
New Course! "Test-Driven ASP.NET" Sept 13-15 in Bellevue, WA.
Details at http://nunitasp.sourceforge.net/tdd-course.html

phone: 503-267-5490
email: js...@ti...
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[Nunitasp-announce] New course: Test-Driven ASP.NET

[<jl...@wg...>]

I am very proud to announce our new public training course, "Test-Driven 
ASP.NET."

In a nutshell, this course is about test-driven ASP.NET using NUnit and 
(of course!) NUnitAsp.  We'll be talking about doing test-driven 
development RIGHT for new ASP.NET applications as well as how to deal 
with existing applications.  This is an in-depth course and I hope you 
can make it.

Last time I checked, there were only six seats left, so please contact 
me if you're interested.  You can email me js...@ti... or 
call 503-267-5490 to make your reservation.
For more information, see the course description at:

http://nunitasp.sourceforge.net/tdd-course.html


Cheers,
Jim

-- 
James Shore - Titanium I.T. LLC - Successful Software
New Course! "Test-Driven ASP.NET" Sept 13-15 in Bellevue, WA.
Details at http://nunitasp.sourceforge.net/tdd-course.html

phone: 503-267-5490
email: js...@ti...
web/blog: http://www.jamesshore.com

[Nunitasp-announce] NUnitAsp v1.5.1 released

[Jim S. <js...@ti...>]

NUnitAsp v1.5.1 is now available for download. NUnitAsp is a tool for 
test-driven development of ASP.NET web pages. 
 
Version 1.5 includes a modest collection of improvements over version 
1.4. The most important new feature is improved custom tester support. 
We've exposed a number of methods needed for writing custom testers and 
we've created a new HtmlTag class that's easy to use and understand. 
Even if you aren't writing custom testers, you'll appreciate 1.5's 
improved error reporting and API documentation.  Particularly handy is 
the new ability to report server-side ASP.NET exceptions directly within 
test failure messages.

Version 1.5.1 is nearly identical to version 1.5. It requires NUnit 2.2 
rather than NUnit 2.1
 
 
NUnitAsp v1.5.1 is available for download at: 
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nunitasp/NUnitAsp-1.5.1.zip?download 
<http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nunitasp/NUnitAsp-1.5.zip?download>. 
 
A detailed change log may be found at: 
http://nunitasp.sourceforge.net/changes.txt 
 
The NUnitAsp website is at http://nunitasp.sourceforge.net. 
 
 
Jim Shore 
Project Coordinator 
NUnitAsp

-- 
Jim Shore
Titanium I.T. LLC - Making IT Profitable
Find my new article, "Fail Fast," in the Sept/Oct issue of IEEE Software.

phone: 503-267-5490
email: js...@ti...

[Nunitasp-announce] NUnitAsp v1.5 released

[Jim S. <js...@ti...>]

NUnitAsp v1.5 is now available for download.  NUnitAsp is a tool for 
test-driven development of ASP.NET web pages.

Version 1.5 includes a modest collection of improvements over version 
1.4. The most important new feature is improved custom tester support. 
We've exposed a number of methods needed for writing custom testers and 
we've created a new HtmlTag class that's easy to use and understand. 
Even if you aren't writing custom testers, you'll appreciate 1.5's 
improved error reporting and API documentation. Particularly handy is 
the new ability to report server-side ASP.NET exceptions directly within 
test failure messages.

NUnitAsp v1.5 is available for download at:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nunitasp/NUnitAsp-1.5.zip?download.

A detailed change log may be found at:
http://nunitasp.sourceforge.net/changes.txt

The NUnitAsp website is at http://nunitasp.sourceforge.net.


Jim Shore
Project Coordinator
NUnitAsp

[Nunitasp-announce] NUnitAsp v1.4.1 released

[Jim S. <js...@ti...>]

NUnitAsp v1.4.1 has been released.  This version is identical to version
1.4 except that it supports NUnit v2.1.4.  Both NUnitAsp 1.4 and 1.4.1
support Visual Studio .NET 2003.

Download it here:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nunitasp/NUnitAsp-1.4.1.zip?download

The NUnitAsp home page is here:
http://nunitasp.sourceforge.net

Jim Shore
Project Coordinator
NUnitAsp

[Nunitasp-announce] NUnitAsp v1.4 released

[Jim S. <js...@ti...>]

NUnitAsp v1.4 is now available for download.

This release includes numerous improvements, thanks to our new patch
king, Levi Khatskevitch. We have support for basic and Windows
authentication, new testers, a vastly improved parser, and support for
the https: protocol. If you've tried NUnitAsp in the past and gotten
stuck with a 404 error, that's fixed now! There's numerous other small
improvements.

NUnitAsp v1.3 is available for download at:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nunitasp/NUnitAsp-1.3.zip?download.

The NUnitAsp website is at http://nunitasp.sourceforge.net.


About NUnitAsp:

NUnitAsp is an open-source extension to the popular NUnit testing
framework. It allows you to test ASP.NET pages without worrying about
how the pages are rendered as HTML.  Instead, you interact with "Tester"
objects that look just like the ASP.NET objects you're testing.

Using NUnitAsp, you can assert on the text of a label by calling
"label.Text".  You can click a link by calling "link.Click()".  Here's
an
example:

public void TestExample()
{
   LabelTester label = new LabelTester("textLabel", CurrentWebForm);
   LinkButtonTester link = new LinkButtonTester("linkButton",
CurrentWebForm);

   AssertEquals("first page", "FirstExample", CurrentWebForm.AspId);
   AssertEquals("label", "Example Label", label.Text);
   link.Click();
   AssertEquals("second page", "SecondExample", CurrentWebForm.AspId); }

NUnitAsp currently has support for the most popular ASP.NET controls.
Support for additional controls is easy to add.

Jim Little
Project Coordinator
NUnitAsp

[Nunitasp-announce] NUnitAsp v1.3 released

[Jim L. <jl...@wg...>]

NUnitAsp v1.3 is now available for download.

The focus of this release was better support for poorly-formed HTML.  With
this release, NUnitAsp no longer requires you to modify the HTML generated
by Visual Studio .NET.  Many thanks to Rick Currence and Andrew Enfield for
their important contributions to this release.

NUnitAsp v1.3 is available for download at:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nunitasp/NUnitAsp-1.3.zip?download.

The NUnitAsp website is at http://nunitasp.sourceforge.net.


About NUnitAsp:

NUnitAsp is an open-source extension to the popular NUnit testing framework.
It allows you to test ASP.NET pages without worrying about how the pages are
rendered as HTML.  Instead, you interact with "Tester" objects that look
just like the ASP.NET objects you're testing.

Using NUnitAsp, you can assert on the text of a label by calling
"label.Text".  You can click a link by calling "link.Click()".  Here's an
example:

public void TestExample()
{
   LabelTester label = new LabelTester("textLabel", CurrentWebForm);
   LinkButtonTester link = new LinkButtonTester("linkButton",
CurrentWebForm);

   AssertEquals("first page", "FirstExample", CurrentWebForm.AspId);
   AssertEquals("label", "Example Label", label.Text);
   link.Click();
   AssertEquals("second page", "SecondExample", CurrentWebForm.AspId);
}

NUnitAsp currently has support for the most popular ASP.NET controls.
Support for additional controls is easy to add.  Here's a list of the
controls supported in this release:

* Anchor
* Button
* CheckBox
* DataGrid
* DropDownList
* Label
* LinkButton
* Panel
* RadioButton
* TextBox
* UserControl
* ValidationSummary


Jim Little
Project Coordinator
NUnitAsp

[Nunitasp-announce] NUnitAsp v1.2.1 for NUnit 2.0 released

[Jim L. <jl...@wg...>]

NUnitAsp v1.2.1 is now available for download.

The focus of this release was NUnit 2.0 support.  Other than the
version of NUnit used and some minor documentation changes, this
version is identical to NUnitAsp v1.2.

NUnitAsp v1.2.1 is available for download at:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nunitasp/NUnitAsp-1.2.1.zip?download.

The NUnitAsp website is at http://nunitasp.sourceforge.net.


About NUnitAsp:

NUnitAsp is an open-source extension to the popular NUnit testing framework.
It allows you to test ASP.NET pages without worrying about how the pages are
rendered as HTML.  Instead, you interact with "Tester" objects that look
just like the ASP.NET objects you're testing.

Using NUnitAsp, you can assert on the text of a label by calling
"label.Text".  You can click a link by calling "link.Click()".  Here's an
example:

public void TestExample()
{
   LabelTester label = new LabelTester("textLabel", CurrentWebForm);
   LinkButtonTester link = new LinkButtonTester("linkButton",
CurrentWebForm);

   AssertEquals("first page", "FirstExample", CurrentWebForm.AspId);
   AssertEquals("label", "Example Label", label.Text);
   link.Click();
   AssertEquals("second page", "SecondExample", CurrentWebForm.AspId);
}

NUnitAsp currently has support for the most popular ASP.NET controls.
Support for additional controls is easy to add.  Here's a list of the
controls supported in this release:

* Anchor
* Button
* CheckBox
* DataGrid
* DropDownList
* Label
* LinkButton
* Panel
* RadioButton
* TextBox
* UserControl
* ValidationSummary


Jim Little
Project Coordinator
NUnitAsp

[Nunitasp-announce] NUnitAsp v1.2 released!

[Jim L. <jl...@wg...>]

NUnitAsp v1.2 is now available for download.

The focus of this release was improved documentation.  We now have a wide
array of documentation, including an installation guide, quick-start
guide, expanded tutorial, and API documentation.

NUnitAsp v1.2 is available for download at:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nunitasp/NUnitAsp-1.2.zip?download.
The NUnitAsp website is at http://nunitasp.sourceforge.net.


About NUnitAsp:

NUnitAsp is an open-source extension to the popular NUnit testing framework.
It allows you to test ASP.NET pages without worrying about how the pages are
rendered as HTML.  Instead, you interact with "Tester" objects that look
just like the ASP.NET objects you're testing.

Using NUnitAsp, you can assert on the text of a label by calling
"label.Text".  You can click a link by calling "link.Click()".  Here's an
example:

public void TestExample()
{
   LabelTester label = new LabelTester("textLabel", CurrentWebForm);
   LinkButtonTester link = new LinkButtonTester("linkButton",
CurrentWebForm);

   AssertEquals("first page", "FirstExample", CurrentWebForm.AspId);
   AssertEquals("label", "Example Label", label.Text);
   link.Click();
   AssertEquals("second page", "SecondExample", CurrentWebForm.AspId);
}

NUnitAsp currently has support for the most popular ASP.NET controls.
Support for additional controls is easy to add.  Here's a list of the
controls supported in this release:

* Anchor
* Button
* CheckBox
* DataGrid
* DropDownList
* Label
* LinkButton
* Panel
* RadioButton
* TextBox
* UserControl
* ValidationSummary


Jim Little
Project Coordinator
NUnitAsp