Unit testing XML Generation [closed]

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manpreet Tuteehub forum best answer Best Answer 2 years ago

What unit testing strategies do people recommend for testing xml is being generated correctly.

The my current tests seem abit primitive, something along the lines of:

[Test]
public void pseudo_test()
{
   XmlDocument myDOC = new XmlDocument();
   mydoc = _task.MyMethodToMakeXMLDoc();

   Assert.AreEqual(myDoc.OuterXML(),"big string of XML")
}
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manpreet 2 years ago

First, as pretty much everyone is saying, validate the XML if there's a schema defined for it. (If there's not, define one.)

But you can build tests that are a lot more granular than that by executing XPath queries against the document, e.g.:

string xml="Your xml string here" ;
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(xml);
path = "/doc/element1[@id='key1']/element2[. = 'value2']";
Assert.IsTrue(doc.SelectSingleNode(path) != null);

This lets you test not only whether or not your document is semantically valid, but whether or not the method producing it is populating it with the values that you expect.


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