SSIS Unit Testing Framework

Hi guyz,

I have always been displeased being not able to unit test my packages
created in SSIS. This was because there was no way to do this.

But the days of darkness are gone. SQL Server Integration Services
Community has felt this need of the day and has come up with a Unit Testing
Framework. Now guyz! if you are not from development background even then
you don't need to worry because no .net code has to be written to write
your unit tests. All you have to create is an XML files with your commands.
So you don't need to know any .net code. Still I have not found out if I
want to write some .net code then how can I do that.

The thing I liked most is that this Unit Test framework is based on xUnit.
It means it follows the same setUP, test. and tearDown flow. There is also
support for Test Suites. The developers of Microsoft Dynamics AX should be
happy to listen to this news.

To keep ease in consideratino, a GUI has been added to create Unit Tests.

I am copying a sample XML used for this framework from codeplex.



You can download it from the following codeplex.com link:
SSIS Unit Testing Framework

You can see that it is just version 1.0 release in Aug, 2008. So
don't expect it to be all bug free.

You would be glad to know that the utility is available as .

So I can't wait to put my hands on this. Share your experience with me
about this.

Enjoy!