Re: [WiX-users] wixunit?
Richard wrote: - start/reset the VMware guest machine image - launch the built install in the VMWare image - monitor the VMware image for failures - report back via email to the developers any failures Me too, in a previous life. The challenge is to test your product (or just its setup) rather than testing MSI itself. We had an ongoing issue where the test was a simple does the product run? which meant that the setup devs were tier-1 support for every failure. Guess what? Most of the failures were in the product code, not the setup. Yet another reason why centralized setup is risky. -- sig://boB http://joyofsetup.com/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
[WiX-users] wixunit?
Another question that's come up today concerns testing practices around WiX and I noticed in the toolset interaction diagram (still shipping in the v3.0 help file) a reference to a tool called wixunit. There's anecdotal mention of this thing in a couple of Google searches, but nothing concrete. Does it exist? Is it under development? No specific mention on SourceForge (other than the .chm contained with the install); nothing on wixwiki.com Insight appreciated on this or other pertinent tools for test purposes generally. RH - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] wixunit?
It's a unit test framework for the WiX toolset itself. It isn't very interesting unless you are changing core WiX toolset code and want to make sure you haven't regressed. I also haven't pushed out all of the test data that I have internally because I haven't done the necessary scrub to make sure there isn't any proprietary Microsoft code in the test data. I know there is some because some early teams at Microsoft contributed their setup code to the test harness to bootstrap our testing efforts. However, I should note that Jordan has been building a fantastic new test system for verifying the WiX toolset itself so WiXUnit will be retired in the not too distant future. Jordan says he'll have information in the WiX.chm about how to add more tests in the next couple weeks. I'm just now starting to write tests using it (used it last week to run down a bug about the SymbolPath element) after Jordan gave me a sneak peek. It's quite cool... To answer your actual question, we don't really have any tools to do testing on MSIs today in the WiX toolset. There is the static analysis stuff (ICEs, via light.exe or smoke.exe) but nothing that verifies installs work. Bob had some interesting opinions on it that I thought he wrote on his blog (http://www.joyofsetup.com)... I'm not seeing it now. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross Holder (Cactus Commerce Inc) Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 13:59 To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: [WiX-users] wixunit? Another question that's come up today concerns testing practices around WiX and I noticed in the toolset interaction diagram (still shipping in the v3.0 help file) a reference to a tool called wixunit. There's anecdotal mention of this thing in a couple of Google searches, but nothing concrete. Does it exist? Is it under development? No specific mention on SourceForge (other than the .chm contained with the install); nothing on wixwiki.com Insight appreciated on this or other pertinent tools for test purposes generally. RH - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
Re: [WiX-users] wixunit?
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rob Mensching [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To answer your actual question, we don't really have any tools to do testin= g on MSIs today in the WiX toolset. There is the static analysis stuff (= ICEs, via light.exe or smoke.exe) but nothing that verifies installs work. = Bob had some interesting opinions on it that I thought he wrote on his blo= g (http://www.joyofsetup.com)... I'm not seeing it now. ICEs are a good place to start unit testing your built MSI. Most people never even seem to get that far. I wrote a bunch (~70+) of ICEs when I worked on a complex install. For testing whether or not the install itself worked, we hacked together a VMware machine, vbscript running on the VMware host and vbscript running on the virtual machine to tie everything together. We actually had a continuous integration feedback loop that went like this: - monitor CVS for changes to install source files - after a period of quiescence on CVS, build the install - start/reset the VMware guest machine image - launch the built install in the VMWare image - monitor the VMware image for failures - report back via email to the developers any failures We wanted to evolve this to doing automated upgrade testing as well, but didn't get that far. -- The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline -- DirectX 9 draft available for download http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html Legalize Adulthood! http://blogs.xmission.com/legalize/ - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
