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Code templates for generating unit testing code

October 29th, 2012

There are many code templates available to quickly create tests, test fixtures and assertion calls for all supported unit testing frameworks. For each test framework, they similar , so if you switched to another framework, you can use the same code templates to generate code which will be valid in a new test framework.

Common code templates are:

Template Description
tm Creates a test method.
tc/tf Creates a test fixture (class).
tsu Creates a ‘set up’ method.
ttd Creates a ‘tear down’ method.
tfsu Creates a ‘class initialize’ method.

Asserts code templates:

Template Description
ae Creates an ‘are equal’ assertion call.
an Creates an ‘is null’ assertion call.
at Creates an ‘is true’ assertion call.
af Creates an ‘is false’ assertion call.
ai Creates an ‘ignore’ assertion call.
etc…

There are also code templates for generating test attributes and using statements with the required namespace references.

Here are the code templates for various test frameworks:

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Products: CodeRush Pro
Versions: 12.1 and up
VS IDEs: 2008 and up
Updated: Oct/29/2012
ID: C213

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