Automated Unit Tests for Reports

[Mat]

Hi there,

I'm going to be building some reports based on a Web Service data source and I was wondering if there's any way to build some unit tests so we can identify if a change to the underlying data / a missing sub-report etc has broken anything.

Thanks in advance,

Mat

[Ivan Hristov]

Hello Mat,

Such unit tests could verify the reports rendering, using a ReportProcessor instance. This class allows to render a report in a specified format and returns a RenderingResult instance which can be checked for errors and also contains the bytes of the output file, if the rendering is successful. We actually use exactly this approach in our own unit tests to make sure the reports are consistently rendered.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Ivan Hristov
Progress Telerik

[TIQRI Dev]

Hello Ivan,

Can you track if a part of the rendering does not happen as expected and throws an error, like below

 

[Neli]

Hi Gayan,

I am sorry to hear that you are experiencing issues with our product. I researched for the error and I found the following SO thread that may help you The specified blob does not exist - Shows in azure browser - but when I click download does not exist

You may also attach a Trace Listener to the designer and send us the generated log file. Please, find the required steps in the Standalone Report Designer Problems article.

[Mat]

Nice one... Thanks Ivan.

I'll start having a look / play around and see what I can do.

Thanks again. 

Mat