It's a unit test framework for the WiX toolset itself. It isn't very
interesting unless you are changing core WiX toolset code and want to make sure
you haven't regressed. I also haven't pushed out all of the test data that I
have internally because I haven't done the necessary scrub to make sure there
isn't any proprietary Microsoft code in the test data. I know there is some
because some early teams at Microsoft contributed their setup code to the test
harness to bootstrap our testing efforts.
However, I should note that Jordan has been building a fantastic new test
system for verifying the WiX toolset itself so WiXUnit will be retired in the
not too distant future. Jordan says he'll have information in the WiX.chm
about how to add more tests in the next couple weeks. I'm just now starting to
write tests using it (used it last week to run down a bug about the SymbolPath
element) after Jordan gave me a sneak peek. It's quite cool...
To answer your actual question, we don't really have any tools to do testing on
MSIs today in the WiX toolset. There is the "static analysis stuff" (ICEs, via
light.exe or smoke.exe) but nothing that verifies installs work. Bob had some
interesting opinions on it that I thought he wrote on his blog
(http://www.joyofsetup.com)... I'm not seeing it now.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross Holder
(Cactus Commerce Inc)
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 13:59
To: 'wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: [WiX-users] wixunit?
Another question that's come up today concerns testing practices around WiX and
I noticed in the toolset interaction diagram (still shipping in the v3.0 help
file) a reference to a tool called "wixunit". There's anecdotal mention of
this thing in a couple of Google searches, but nothing concrete. Does it
exist? Is it under development? No specific mention on SourceForge (other
than the .chm contained with the install); nothing on wixwiki.com....
Insight appreciated on this or other pertinent tools for "test" purposes
generally.
RH
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