R – MSTest & CruiseControl.Net

i made the following changes to get MSTest results output to be shown in CruiseControl.NET

1) For Dashboard - in dashboard.config added a reference to the Mstest 2008 xsl file under buildReportBuildPlugin

<xslFile>xsl\MsTestReport2008.xsl</xslFile>

2) For email - in ccservice.exe.config added the reference to the same xsl file under xslFiles section

<file name="xsl\MsTestSummary2008.xsl"/>

The November version of the Silverlight Toolkit contains not only the Silverlight Unit Testing Framework, but also an MSBuild task to allow the framework to be run from the command line. See Jeff Wilcox's post for detail, but you essentially end up doing this:

msbuild /t:test /p:browser=firefox

As CC.Net can run MSBuild you should be able to at least call the tests. The output is in TRX format.

I've used this framework with some success, although not integrated into CC.Net, it works fine but the tests run in a browser so are a little slow. The advantage of running in the browser is you can do more acceptance-like tests, running up controls to display. The framework also includes methods to cope with the asynchronous nature of Silverlight.