Cucumber Recipes

Recipe 27

Test on Windows Phone

Problem

You want to test a Windows Phone app using Cucumber syntax.

Ingredients

• Visual Studio Professional 2010 Service Pack 1^[172] or newer

• The Windows Phone SDK 7.1^[173]

• The Windows Phone Test Framework^[174] by Expensify

• SpecFlow^[175] for parsing Cucumber syntax

• NUnit^[176] to run the tests

• The NuGet package manager^[177] to install the testing tools

Solution

Writing Cucumber-style tests for Windows Phone involves orchestrating a few different pieces that work together. A test runner starts and stops the test. SpecFlow parses your plain-English test steps and matches them to your C# step definitions. A server embedded into your app listens for incoming commands and simulates screen taps.

The Windows Phone Test Framework ...