You will find that CosmosDB Emulator will fail, randomly, for no apparent reason doing simple things like get an instance of a container or create the database. In the world of cloud, it’s important to handle Transient Faults, or errors that are not repeatable or consistent in when the appear. They might look like this: … Continue reading Improving CosmosDB Test Automation Reliability with Retry Logic
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Cosmos DB Emulator on Azure DevOps
The cosmos DB Emulator is a custom action available on the Azure DevOps portal, however, that doesn't exactly make it turnkey to use. The custom task will spin up a container running Cosmos DB, however it does so with a specific local DNS / port that you need to pipe into your test running. There … Continue reading Cosmos DB Emulator on Azure DevOps
Xamarin UI Test Automation Android Setup
I guess my expectations are a bit high that when I install Visual Studio 2019 to include cross-platform mobile development (Xamarin.Forms) it would properly configure itself. It turns out that when you try and get UI Test Automation working with Xamarin.Forms that is just not the case. Let’s peel this onion. Missing ANDROID_HOME environment variable. … Continue reading Xamarin UI Test Automation Android Setup
AspNetCore.TestHost + Azure Active Directory (Part II)
So in my last post on the topic, I was describing some challenges I faced when receiving 401 not authorized errors when attempting to pass a seemingly correct bearer token to my Azure Active Directory protected WebAPI. I’ve discovered the solution. Not only was I able to get it working but it also works flawlessly … Continue reading AspNetCore.TestHost + Azure Active Directory (Part II)
AspNetCore.TestHost + Azure Active Directory (Part I)
I have been evaluating new practices for implementing Integration Testing WebAPIs and I’ve been trying to use TestHost to test a WebAPI that I have secured with Azure Active Directory. I am able to use PostMan to obtain a bearer token from Azure AD's oauth2/token endpoint and call HTTP GET on '/api/Values'. However, when I … Continue reading AspNetCore.TestHost + Azure Active Directory (Part I)
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