Question

Yea i know i’m way behind times but what i’ve got here is a antique VB6 editor app which i believe that no one will be upgrading to .NET soon. It uses a couple of third party DLLs tools and as it’s still using the good old RichEdit control i basically can raise my own Bug farm with just this tool alone.

So enough is enough and i’m trying to see if i can use TDD so i can start writing unit test for each behavior/feature that i need to fix, so sooner or later i can have a complete regression test suite for this tool. And even in the future if we do upgrade to .NET i think most of the tests that i’ve written should be helpful in validating the correct behavior and should be upgradable to a .NET version too, i guess.

Some basic Googling send me to this tool call simplyVBunit, but i can’t find enough guides,etc to get me started and yes i’m not that proficient with VB6 either 🙁

1. So does anyone know of any good tools/resources for me to use TDD for this VB6 app? [Preferably upgradable to .NET later just in case.]
2. Or i can actually use those unit test framework for .NET, i.e. NUnit, etc via a workaround?
3. Or is there’s an even more awesome way to get this done?

Thanks 🙂

EDIT:

I’ve tried messing with vbunit but i found that there’s no easy way to add it to an existing app or at least not to my know how. Thus i’ve found this to play with too, vb-lite-unit and also this comunit. Plus there’s some saying that we can use NUnit with vb6 but there’s even less resource on that.

Answer 1

VBUnit worked well for me at a former client on a VB6 project.