Daniele Demichelis » C# http://www.danidemi.com/mainwww There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't... Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:14:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Database testing with Mono and NUnit http://www.danidemi.com/mainwww/2010/03/database-testing-with-mono-and-nunit/ http://www.danidemi.com/mainwww/2010/03/database-testing-with-mono-and-nunit/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:03:37 +0000 danidemi http://www.danidemi.com/mainwww/?p=107 In these days I’m trying to rewrite an old application using Mono.
I’m currently a newbie about Mono and the .Net world, but I happily noticed that the Mono environment come with a bundled interface to NUnit, so I can keep on writing tests as I’m slowly but steadily getting used to.
After having put together a bunch of classes and relative and unit tests, it was time to write the first integration test. I needed to put the development database in a known state before running the test, so I came up with the following class, that I’d like to share with you.

  1. using System;
  2. using System.Collections;
  3. using NUnit.Framework;
  4. using System.IO;
  5. using System.Data;
  6. using System.Data.SqlClient;
  7. namespace TellItMailer{
  8.  public class TestDbSetup{
  9.   public void SetUpDbForTest(object test){
  10.    String path = test.GetType().FullName + ".sql";
  11.    path = path.Replace(this.GetType().Namespace + ".", "");
  12.    path = "/home/danidemi/workspace/TellItMailer/Tests/" + path;
  13.    //Read the script
  14.    String script = "";
  15.    using (StreamReader sr = File.OpenText(path)){
  16.     string s = "";
  17.                while ((s = sr.ReadLine()) != null){
  18.      script = script + s;
  19.                }
  20.           }
  21.  
  22.    string connectionString =
  23.     "Server=192.168.75.128\\SQLEXPRESS;" +
  24.     "Database=TellIt_test;" +
  25.              "User ID=user;" +
  26.              "Password=password;";
  27.  
  28.           IDbConnection dbcon;
  29.    using(dbcon = new SqlConnection(connectionString)){
  30.     dbcon.Open();
  31.            using (IDbCommand dbcmd = dbcon.CreateCommand()) {
  32.                dbcmd.CommandText = script;
  33.      dbcmd.ExecuteNonQuery();
  34.     }
  35.    }
  36.   }
  37.  
  38.  }
  39. }

It’s quite useful. Essentially this class loads a SQL script file whose name is the same of the test class, and execute it.
In this way you have for example a TestFeature.cs file alongside a TestFeature.sql file. Nice if your IDE shows files sorted alphabetically.
I found that the best place to use the class is inside the SetUp marked method. In this way the SQL script is run before each test. Doing it in a local development environment is not so bad, since the scripts are executed at high speed.

So, this is an example of how a test that uses TestDbSetup looks like.

  1. using System;
  2. using NUnit.Framework;
  3. using log4net;
  4. using log4net.Config;
  5. namespace TellItMailer {
  6.  [TestFixture()]
  7.  public class IntegrationTest {
  8.   [SetUp]
  9.   public void SetUp(){
  10.    new TestDbSetup().SetUpDbForTest(this);
  11.   }
  12.  
  13.   [Test]
  14.   public void TestCase(){
  15.    BasicConfigurator.Configure();
  16.   }
  17.  }
  18. }

Pretty useful, IMHO.

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using log4net; using log4net.Core; using log4net.Appender; using [...]]]> If you use log4net, you could have the need to configure the loggers programamtically. The problem arise when you want access to the root logger, since the documentation does not explain well how to obtain it.
So, here’s a snippet that show how to do it. Don’t forget to imort the log4net namespaces.

  1. using log4net;
  2. using log4net.Core;
  3. using log4net.Appender;
  4. using log4net.Layout;
  5. using log4net.Repository.Hierarchy;
  6. using log4net.Config;
  1. Hierarchy h = (Hierarchy)log4net.LogManager.GetRepository();
  2. Logger rootLogger = h.Root;
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