[wix-devs] Running WiX Tests

[Edwin Castro]

I'm actually trying to backport only the hash algorithm changes for
https://github.com/wixtoolset/issues/issues/3992

Was hoping to use the tests as a way to convince myself I had not broken
anything.

--
Edwin G. Castro


On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 11:33 AM Sean Hall via wix-devs <
wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> Theoretically you should be able to open src\burn.sln in Visual Studio and
> use it's test runner to run the tests in the debugger.
>
> The assertions are likely the same that were fixed in
>
> https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix4/commit/1446d4e582465af5c09db3fba16afc59529a3863
> .
>
> I highly recommend developing in v4 first, where we are much more likely to
> help you. That's also where there is test coverage. Once you get it working
> in v4 it shouldn't be hard to port back to v3 if all of your changes are in
> Burn.
>
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 1:10 PM Edwin Castro <egcastr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, WiX 4.0 is not at a level of maturity that allows me to
> > convince management to move to it.
> >
> > Any advice on how to debug BurnUnitTest.dll?
> >
> > I'm seeing a Debug Assert Message dialog that says
> >
> > Assertion failed in C:\dev\wix\src\libs\dutil\strutil.cpp, 367
> > Abort=Debug, Retry=Skip, Ignore=Skip all
> >
> > Clicking Abort doesn't bring up a debugger so I figure I must be missing
> > something obvious.
> >
> > --
> > Edwin G. Castro
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 4:01 PM Sean Hall via wix-devs <
> > wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Yes. 99% of the tests in v3 are from the time where the real repo was in
> >> Microsoft and the changes had to be manually ported to the public repo.
> No
> >> one ever spent the time to verify or fix the tests in the public repo.
> >>
> >> All of the tests in v4 are passing (or marked skipped if they're known
> to
> >> be failing). You probably want to develop in v4 first at this point.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 5:41 PM Edwin Castro via wix-devs <
> >> wix-devs at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> > I'm working on a clone of the wix3 repo and I have successfully built
> >> the
> >> > wix3112rtm tag. When I try to run the tests using test\test.bat I get
> a
> >> lot
> >> > of errors! Is that expected?
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Edwin G. Castro
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