Plasma

NEW POST: Project Status

jesschadwick — Mon, 05 May 2008 03:46:25 GMT

Hello,

The last release of this project was in Feb. '07 and the last post in the discussions was in August and went unanswered... What is the status of this project? Is it dead?

NEW POST: Mocking

ulu — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 11:05:44 GMT

Hi,

I'm looking forward to using this framework, however, before trying to figure this out, I'd like to ask. Can I mock my dependencies with Plasma? Can I use mock frameworks?

While I'm in the editor, a quick suggestion for future development. You might want to implement something that allows us to write more readable tests. For example, instead of LinkButton.Click(form, "LinkButton1"), we could write something that is closer to the original code:
Dim LinkButton1 As New LinkButtonTester(form, "LinkButton1")
(Or: Dim LinkButton1 As LinkButtonTester = form.GetControlTester(Of LinkButton)("LinkButton1"))
SecondRequest = LinkButton1.Click()

Especially, things like
FindHtmlElementById("Label1").InnerHtml
really complicate things, since I should figure out my HTML structure and know the implementation of the Label control. Could be just
Dim Label1 as LabelTester = form.GetControlTester(Of Label) ("Label1")
Assert.AreEqual("LinkButton Pushed!", Label1.Text)

Anyway, the toughest part is there, all my suggestions are sort of syntactic sugar.

On the other hand, judging from the HTML-related methods, do you just parse the HTML output for testing? If yes, it makes testing complex pages almost impossible. Just consider a GridView with template fields. Since everything is in-process, is it possible to inspect my Page object before rendering, and test all the controls' properties directly?

Thanks

ulu

NEW POST: Https?

CHunterBoy — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 14:44:15 GMT

Does plasma support testing of https enabled websites?

Many thanks

Craig.

NEW POST: Integrating Plasma in WebAii

ssmith — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 02:06:37 GMT

Sorry I only just saw this message...

I'd be happy to discuss working together on Plasma. Please contact me if you're still interested. http://aspadvice.com/blogs/ssmith/.

NEW POST: Any examples?

ssmith — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 02:05:12 GMT

snkscore wrote:
Are there any examples of using Plasma with a asp.net webforms app?

I'm sure you guys are using it on some stuff for testing purposes. Could you post some of the examples maybe?

There are some simple examples included in the initial release download. I'm using it with some stuff on a personal project of mine, but I don't have anything I can pull out to share at the moment. What specific scenario(s) are you wondering about?

NEW POST: Any examples?

snkscore — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:53:52 GMT

Are there any examples of using Plasma with a asp.net webforms app?

I'm sure you guys are using it on some stuff for testing purposes. Could you post some of the examples maybe?

NEW POST: Integrating Plasma in WebAii

aot — Fri, 11 May 2007 15:21:31 GMT

Hi Guys -

We were half way through building an InProc host for ASP.NET in our free WebAii automation infrastructure - here: www.artoftest.com when we came across this project. Our goal is to:
1. Have first class support for ASP.NET Testing Scenarios. We want them to not only run their tests on Firefox or IE, but also run against an in-proc ASp.NET host for quick execution of their smoke test scenarios that don't require a browser host.
2. Allow them to do UILess testing for their unattended / non-interactive test execution using MSTest and VSTS.

We currently support IE/Firefox using one consistent API and users can switch back and forth using a config switch. Now, we want to also add an option for them to run against an InProc ASP.NET Server so they can now choose IE/Firefox or ASp.NET Server.

We thought we discuss integrating the current Plasma project (The ASP.NET Host Portion only since we already have our own DOM implementation and element search support) in WebAii. Our initial plan is to integrate at the source level and move the code to use our DOM. This way users can still use our rich Find object to do rich element identification (id/attributes/regex/xpaths..etc).

Please give any feedback if there are any reservation/issues you forsee in our integration. Otherwise, we will continue with our own implementation.

Thanks.
Tom - contact@artoftest.com

CLOSED TASK: Set up user accounts

ssmith — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:05:05 GMT

CREATED TASK: Set up user accounts

ssmith — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:05:03 GMT

UPDATED WIKI: Home

ssmith — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:17:35 GMT

Plasma is an in-process web server emulator that can be used for automation and unit testing of ASP.NET applications.

Ok, so what can you do with it?

Basically Plasma allows you to easily test or automate ASP.NET pages and applications in a performant manner, since everything occurs in-memory, so there is not network level overhead. Many of the web test scenarios available as part of Visual Studio Team Suite : Tester SKU are possible with this framework and therefore available to NUnit users (examples - testing that a page has a given value on it after a postback, testing that a page returns within a given time threshold, etc.).

Initial release available as of 28 Feb 07

Test Projects will require updating WebAppHelper.cs file to point at actual file path of test web site project.

NUnit Screenshot

MSTest Screenshot

UPDATED WIKI: Home

ssmith — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:17:25 GMT

Plasma is an in-process web server emulator that can be used for automation and unit testing of ASP.NET applications.

!!Ok, so what can you do with it?
Basically Plasma allows you to easily test or automate ASP.NET pages and applications in a performant manner, since everything occurs in-memory, so there is not network level overhead. Many of the web test scenarios available as part of Visual Studio Team Suite : Tester SKU are possible with this framework and therefore available to NUnit users (examples - testing that a page has a given value on it after a postback, testing that a page returns within a given time threshold, etc.).

Initial release available as of 28 Feb 07

Test Projects will require updating WebAppHelper.cs file to point at actual file path of test web site project.

NUnit Screenshot

MSTest Screenshot

UPDATED RELEASE: 1.0.07015 Alpha

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:00:00 GMT

This is the initial release of Plasma which includes some very rough control helpers and unit test sample projects for both NUnit and MSTest.

UPDATED RELEASE: 1.0.07015 Alpha

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:00:00 GMT

This is the initial release of Plasma which includes some very rough control helpers and unit test sample projects for both NUnit and MSTest.

CREATED RELEASE: 1.0.07015 Alpha

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:00:00 GMT

This is the initial release of Plasma which includes some very rough control helpers and unit test sample projects for both NUnit and MSTest.

Source code checked in

ssmith — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:29:29 GMT

set up initial 1.1 solution

Source code checked in

ssmith — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:25:43 GMT

Branched my solution to v1.1

Source code checked in

ssmith — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:24:43 GMT

Created 1.1 Project Branch

UPDATED WIKI: Home

ssmith — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:13:16 GMT

Plasma is an in-process web server emulator that can be used for automation and unit testing of ASP.NET applications.

Initial release available as of 28 Feb 07

Test Projects will require updating WebAppHelper.cs file to point at actual file path of test web site project.

NUnit Screenshot

MSTest Screenshot

UPDATED WIKI: Home

ssmith — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:11:19 GMT

Plasma is an in-process web server emulator that can be used for automation and unit testing of ASP.NET applications.

Initial release available as of 28 Feb 07

Test Projects will require updating WebAppHelper.cs file to point at actual file path of test web site project.

UPDATED WIKI: Home

ssmith — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:08:07 GMT

Plasma is an in-process web server emulator that can be used for automation and unit testing of ASP.NET applications.

Initial release available as of 28 Feb 07

Test Projects will require updating WebAppHelper.cs file to point at actual file path of test web site project.