Some more on Pex

So I've been playing with Pex and I decided to try it on another application I am playing with Prism.

I had a look at the ListDictionaryFixture in the Prism.Tests project. And I set my eyes on these three TestMethods and decided to see how Pex could work here.

   1: [ExpectedException(typeof(ArgumentNullException))]


   2: [TestMethod]


   3: public void AddThrowsIfKeyNull()


   4: {


   5:     list.Add(null, new object());


   6: }


   7:  


   8: [ExpectedException(typeof(ArgumentNullException))]


   9: [TestMethod]


  10: public void AddThrowsIfValueNull()


  11: {


  12:     list.Add("", null);


  13: }


  14:  


  15: [TestMethod]


  16: public void CanAddValue()


  17: {


  18:     object value1 = new object();


  19:     object value2 = new object();


  20:     


  21:     list.Add("foo", value1);


  22:     list.Add("foo", value2);


  23:  


  24:     Assert.AreEqual(2, list["foo"].Count);


  25:     Assert.AreSame(value1, list["foo"][0]);


  26:     Assert.AreSame(value2, list["foo"][1]);


  27: }




 



So first I referenced the Microsoft.Pex.Framework Assembly.  Then I created a parameterized PexMethod.





   1: [PexMethod]


   2: public void TestCanAddValue(string key, object value)


   3: {


   4:     list.Add(key, value);


   5: }




 



And then I ran Pex.



My first result was not quite what I expected:



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I would have expected at least three tests to be run by Pex, so first I check the Uninstrumented Method.



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If you right-click and select Instrument assembly Pex goes and adds a PexAssemblyInfo.cs file to your project



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and places the following inside the file:





   1: using Microsoft.Pex.Framework.Instrumentation;


   2: using System;


   3: using Microsoft.Pex.Framework.Validation;


   4:  


   5: [assembly: PexInstrumentAssembly("Prism")]




Right, so let's run Pex again.  After Pex has run it shows me the following result:



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This is what I expected.  Now I want to fix the failed Run 1 and 2.  If you look at the generated test you see that it does not say what the ExpectedException should be:





   1: [TestMethod]


   2: [PexRaisedException(typeof(ArgumentNullException))]


   3: [PexGeneratedBy(typeof(ListDictionaryFixture))]


   4: public void TestCanAddValueStringObject_20080604_155328_000()


   5: {


   6:     this.TestCanAddValue((string)null, (object)null);


   7: }


   8:  


   9: [TestMethod]


  10: [PexRaisedException(typeof(ArgumentNullException))]


  11: [PexGeneratedBy(typeof(ListDictionaryFixture))]


  12: public void TestCanAddValueStringObject_20080604_155926_001()


  13: {


  14:     this.TestCanAddValue("", (object)null);


  15: }




To get Pex to generate the tests correctly you need to either Fix It or Allow It by right clicking on the row:



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I chose to Allow It and then it adds another entry into the PexAssemblyInfo.cs file.



And then I reran Pex, and there you go I replaced three Unit Tests with one PexMethod.



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