Gilded Rose: Getting Started With Approval Tests in C#

• There are two ways to run approval tests. The simplest is to use the nuget ApprovalTests package, as in ApprovalTest.cs.
  • You need an approved file - ApprovalTest.UpdateQuality.approved.txt - this file has been added to the csharp-liftup-start branch of Gilded Rose.
  • You might need to install the ApprovalTests nuget package: Tools => NuGet Package Manager => Manage Nuget packages for solution
  • You can use the Resharper test runner or the built-in Visual Studio test runner to run tests:
    • Resharper test runner:
      • Click the blobs in the gutter on line 13 of ApprovalTest.cs, where the ApprovalTest class is defined
      • …or Extensions => Resharper => Unit tests => unit test sessions
    • Built in VS test runner:
      • Test => Test explorer
• The alternative way to run tests is to use the texttest utility
  • Instructions here
  • You need to edit config.gr - see commits in this dedicated branch

Gilded Rose: Working in Visual Studio

• Enterprise version of VS has Live Unit Testing - green button on right in test explorer (see image below) - equivalent to NCrunch

• You can do a lot of what Resharper provides just using VS default functionality
  • People without Resharper might need to change target version of project from AnyCPu to x86 (see image below)
  • You can’t inline when using VS functionality
    • you only can if it’s a one-liner
    • there’s a big debate about this online apparently!
  • another one missing from VS is “remove braces”