Visual Studio Unit Testing of Windows Forms

Question

We\'re working on a project here in Visual Studio 2008. We\'re using the built-in testing suite provided with it (the Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting namespace

Answer 1

I've used NUnitForms when it comes to testing my own UI controls with good results! I would agree with the others on refactoring if you are using standard (or well tested) UI controls.

If the focus is on testing the actual controls I would use NUnitForms as it can be extended to support your new controls. Anyhow if you're not to involve any manual testing you will need a lib that can do "image based" analysis of the displayed end result.

I've tried TestComplete for this but I though it to be a bit too pricey since I could code a similar lib for just the image comparison in c#. So my plan would be to test the controls separately and then refactor the UI as mentioned my the others.