[Opensim-dev] Automated Testing

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Hi all.

Just starting to look at this project, and seems interesting enough. I come
from a short background creating internal corperate web sites using C# /
Monorail, but have interests in virtual worlds, and am happy to see such a
project being built on .NET.

Anyway, I've been using automated unit and integration testing for almost a
year now, and found it drastically increased the quality of my code. What is
the position of the project in terms of how unit testing are implemented?
Does anyone on the project write their own but just not commit them?

I'd be hasty to try to come in here trying to change the world (so to
speak), so perhaps I'll start smaller. I'm planning on trying to grok the
code base by developing my own test harness that can be used for integration
testing. Basically, it would be a region that could be started, and have
tests run against it, probably in the form of sending commands through bots
connected using libsecondlife. The API would allow for the tests to run
multiple times, perhaps switching out things like which data store manager
is used during the test so that a single test can be run against multiple
implementations.

I would try to allow the creation of tests to be simple and straightforward,
such as...


[Test]
public void CanInstantMessage()
{
const string message = "Test Message";

TestAvatar avatar1 = ActivateNewAvatar();
TestAvatar avatar2 = ActivateNewAvatar();
avatar1.Perform(Action.InstantMessage(avatar2, message));

Assert.AreEqual(1, avatar2.RecievedMessages.From(avatar2).Count);
Assert.AreEqual(message, avatar2.RecievedMessages.From
(avatar2).First().Message);
}

So that's it, I'm interested in any feedback you have.
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