MbUnit and WatiN Screen Capture in Test Reports

I have blogged about WatiN recently. MbUnit is an alternative and very rich unit unit testing framework for .NET that is offered as part of the Gallio test automation platform. Gallio itself can be used with a variety of unit testing frameworks and other tools, not just MbUnit. For example, from within the Gallio GUI you can run any NUnit tests you may have.

MbUnit 3.1 was released recently and has some slick new features to facilitate web application testing with WatiN.

MbUnit allows you to create a WatiN test and automatically embed an image of the web page on test failure or on demand. This is very slick. The images below are from the results of running the Gallio sample project that comes with the Gallio installation (Gallio includes MbUnit). The images are rendered in .png format.

 

Also notice how it describes the WatiN operations...

Capture on Failure

Go to Google, enter MbUnit as a search term and click I'm Feeling Lucky

Navigating to 'http://www.google.com/'
Typing 'MbUnit' into TextField 'Google Search'
Clicking Button 'I'm Feeling Lucky'

and

Capture on Success

Go to Google, enter MbUnit as a search term and click I'm Feeling Lucky

Navigating to 'http://www.google.com/'
Typing 'MbUnit' into TextField 'Google Search'
Clicking Button 'I'm Feeling Lucky'

Click on About.

Clicking Link 'About'

The Gallio test runner GUI also has options for viewing the report in various HTML formats. For example if you select XHTML it loads the report in your default browser and you are able to expand/collapse the test fixtures and tests, e.g.,

This is very impressive and I would say this WatiN integration is a "killer feature" for MbUnit. I wish it had been available for my last commercial project that used WatiN.