Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Save a little time when writing unit test using VS.NET Macro


- As a unit testing passioner, I write a lot of unit tests for my code. But repeating adding test attributes to classes and methods, adding resharper ignore InconsistentNaming statement or adding AAA pattern are killing me. So I thought of making some awesome macros to save my time.
- Basically, when I add a test class, the file will originaly be like this:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace MyProject
{
    class NewTestClass
    {
    }
}

- And I want it to be like this after a few key presses:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;

// ReSharper disable InconsistentNaming
namespace MyProject
{
    [TestClass]
    public class NewTestClass
    {
        [TestMethod]
        public void Should_be_implemented_NOW()
        {
            // Arrange


            // Action


            // Assert

        }
    }
}
// ReSharper restore InconsistentNaming

- This is archivable with following macros:
Sub CreateTestClassAttribute()
 DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.StartOfLine(vsStartOfLineOptions.vsStartOfLineOptionsFirstText)
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = "public "
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.StartOfLine(vsStartOfLineOptions.vsStartOfLineOptionsFirstText)
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.NewLine()
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.LineUp()
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = "[TestClass]"
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.EndOfLine()
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.LineUp(False, 3)
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.StartOfLine(vsStartOfLineOptions.vsStartOfLineOptionsFirstText, True)
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = "using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;"
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.EndOfLine()
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.NewLine()

    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.NewLine()
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = "// ReSharper disable InconsistentNaming"
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.EndOfLine()
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.LineDown(False, 8)
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.EndOfLine()
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = "// ReSharper restore InconsistentNaming"
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.LineUp(False, 3)

    CreateTestMethod()
End Sub
Public Sub CreateTestMethod()
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.NewLine()
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = "[TestMethod]"
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.NewLine()
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = "public void Should_be_implemented_now()"
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.NewLine()
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = "{"
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.NewLine()

    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = "// Arrange"
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.NewLine(3)

    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = "// Action"
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.NewLine(3)

    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.Text = "// Assert"
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.NewLine()
    DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection.LineUp(False, 6)
End Sub

- Well, the steps are simple:
  1. In your VS.NET click Tool -> Macros -> Macro Explorer and paste these macros to the RecordingModule.
  2. Choose Tool again -> Options -> Keyboard. Type in Macros, choose these 2 macros and bind your favorite hot key for it like picture below:


- I choose Ctrl F - Ctrl C to make a test class with first test method and Ctrl F - Ctrl M to add another Test method.
- Hehe, It's DRY principle in unit testing. I has been using different Unit testing frameworks like NUnit, MBUnit, etc but in this post, I used VS.NET test framework. You properly need to alter the macros a little bit to fit your needs. Now enjoy your tests. Cheers



4 comments:

hoanang_118 said...

Thanks You! Can You help me code to find .NET IDE location for VS 2008? I hope to receive your feedback. Thanks You very much

Án Bình Trọng said...

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Unknown said...

@Binh Thanks.
@hoanang_118: Sorry, I'm not quite sure what you meant by "code to find .NET location". Is it relevant to this post?

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