Test Application Guide for Winforms

Question

I'm a c# developer in a medium/small company. I use to do quick test of the apps that my workmates made and they use to test my applications. We test each form based in our experience. (yes, I know this is not a very formal method)

Now a new guy without experience are going to join our team. We think now is the momento to make a little list of things that all we should test in each form. Divided by categories. For example usability: Test that the taborder of each control are properly setted, or Valitacion: Test that the max lenght of each textbox match with the max lenght of a field in the DB...etc

We don't one to Reinvent the Wheels, so I want to know if such kind of document already exists.

Thanks

Answer 1

The items you list are not tests in the traditional sense. You'd need some kind of static analysis tool, similar to FxCop or StyleCop. I'm not aware of a product made specifically for Windows Forms that can do what you listed. That usually requires massively parallel computing hardware, the kind that the new guy carries between his ears.

Don't hesitate to run FxCop btw, you'll probably get plenty of flags if you've never subjected your code to it before. StyleCop is good if the new guy complains about coding standards.