Project Description

NBi is a testing framework (add-on to NUnit) for Microsoft Business Intelligence platform and Data Access.
The main goal of this framework is to let users create tests with a declarative approach based on an Xml syntax. By the means of NBi, you don't need to develop C# code to specify your tests! Either, you don't need Visual Studio to compile your test suite. Just create an Xml file and let the framework interpret it and play your tests. The framework is designed as an add-on of NUnit but with the possibility to port it easily to other testing frameworks.

Documentation

Documentation is now updated for release 1.1, including a list of "how to" for beginners and the usage of some elements in NBi syntax to manage test cases (description, ignore, edition, category). Features tagged v1.1 are only available in the release 1.1.

How to

• Manually create my first test suite with NBi
• Run a test suite with NUnit GUI
• Run a test suite with Gallio
• Share binaries between test-suites (useful for build servers)

Currently supported features

• SSAS & SQL
  • Query execution
    • Test equivalence of two result sets
    • Test performance (improved in v1.1)
    • Test syntax
    • Get a query from an assembly v1.1
• SSAS
  • Cube structure
    • Test the availability of an element in the cube's structure (measure, measure-group, level, hierarchy, dimension, perspective)
    • Test availability of one or more elements in the cube structure v1.1
    • Test the relation between a dimension and a measure-group v1.1
  • Dimension membership
    • Test the members' count at any level of a dimension or hierarchy
    • Test ordering of members at any level of a dimension or hierarchy
    • Test availability of a member at any level of a dimension or hierarchy
    • Test availability of one or more members in a hierarchy or level v1.1
• Manage test cases
  • Group tests cases by categories (manual or automatic)
  • Author and updates
  • Provide a description to your test
  • Ignore a test
  • Manage connection strings v1.1
• Tool to assist in the creation of a test suite
  • Generate new tests based on a template v1.1