NFixture is an open source .NET project aiming to provide a tool for aiding DB data integrity testing and eliminate the hassles of test data preparation and clean-up. The aim of this project is to have a hassle-free data integrity testing in the .NET environment. The initial stage of this project will be compatible with NUnit and Visual Studio's built-in unit testing tools. The initial version is written in C#. This presentation was presented during this year's (2009) Microsoft Web Ramp Up conference by Shein Ernacio, Software Engineer at Exist www.exist.com.

1. NFixtur

2. I. What is NFixture
NFixture is an open-source .NET project that
provides a tool for database data integrity testing and
for eliminating the hassles of test data preparation and
clean-up.

3. I. Why not Test against the actual
DB?
II. Why not use a Test DB?
III. Features
IV. Scenarios
a. Portability of Unit Test
b. Creating Test Data
c. Scheduled Test

4. I. Why not Test against the actual
DB?
Interfere with actual data processes
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Dificult to create test data
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5. II. Why not use a Test DB?
Integrity of the test
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Synchronizing of test DB with the actual DB
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6. III. Features
Addin to Visual Studio 2008
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Easily writable test data. (xml)
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Wizard
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Easy to use
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7. IV. Scenarios
a. Portability of my unit tests
Actual data VS Test Data

8. Your tests failed
on the server!
Huh?! But they
are working in
my machine.

9. b. Creating Test data
Complicated Data Structure

10. Do I have to create
this much test data!?
Just to test a d@!n function!

11. c. Scheduled Build

12. Why does it
keep on
failing?
Can we just
remove the test
from the
scheduled build?

13. Roadmap?

14. sernacio@exist.com