We are starting a big LOB application using Silverlight.
I was wondering if you have any experience with Testing Silverlight apps, what are the best solutions you found and if you encountered any pitfalls.
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We are starting a big LOB application using Silverlight.
I was wondering if you have any experience with Testing Silverlight apps, what are the best solutions you found and if you encountered any pitfalls.
A stalwart individual named Jeff Wilcox has developed a unit test framework targeting Silverlight 2 specifically. It works well.
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/silverlightut/
I also use Rhino Mocks 3.5 For Silverlight as my mocking framework, developed by Oren Eini. Rhino Mocks is free and excellent. It also offers Silverlight support:
http://ayende.com/projects/rhino-mocks.aspx
I use Prism 2.0, and Unity IoC, which help facilitate the MVVM pattern. This makes testing a breeze. One pitfall that I find, is that Silverlight unit tests run inside a web browser, which hampers continuous integration.
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