Unit Testing

The Consolonia.NUnit package provides scaffolding for writing unit tests against your UI. It does this by giving you the ability to load the application into a dummy console, send keystrokes to it and then validate that the output matches your expectations.

To do this you derive your test class from UnitTestConsole and then write unit tests using the .KeyInput() and .AssertHasText() methods.

UITest.KeyInput

The KeyInput() method allows you to send one or more simulated key strokes to the application.

UITest.AssertHasText()

The AssertHasText() method gives you the ability to send 1..N regular expressions which will be evaluated against the text of a snapshot of the simulated console screen.

Example

    [TestFixture]
    public class MyTests: UnitTestConsole
    {
        [Test]
        public async Task Test1()
        {
            await UITest.KeyInput(Key.Tab);
            await UITest.AssertHasText("Arch", "Leaf");

            await UITest.KeyInput(Key.Right);
            await UITest.AssertHasText("Arch", "Leaf", "This is the second page");
        }
    }