Comments on: Fitnesse and .NET – a basic tutorial

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:21:14 +0000

If any n00bs (used to a windows/.net environment) and got stuck on “Step 1 – Download and run Fitnesse” and haven’t figured out how to get the fitness webstite running (like me), here’s what you need to do:

From the Fitness homepage (http://www.fitnesse.org), head to the “Download FitNesse and Plugins” topic, then you’ll see a list of links to .jar & .zip files – as well as links to plugins. I was looking for the .net port of the project so I was hunting around in the .Net Fit download file and couldn’t figure out how to get the webserver running (there’s even a FitServer.exe file in the download – how confusing!).

After some struggling, I figured out that you need to first download the latest .zip file listed in the page (eg fitnesse20090513.zip), unzip the files, make sure Java is installed – since that’s what the Fitness server actually runs on – and then you can run the run.bat file in the root of the unzipped folder. After getting that to work, I then downloaded the latest .jar file (eg fitnesse.jar from the 20100303 folder) and put it in the root of the same unzipped folder (it’ll replace the existing file from the zip unless you rename the original). Then you can run run.bat again and it’ll do some work before loading the server process into memory. If you have IIS running, you’ll see the error that you need to specify an unused port, so you can execute the batch like “run.bat -p 8080″ for example to get the server running on port 8080 like shown in the tutorial.

You might be able to avoid the .zip file altogether and just download the latest .jar and run the “java -jar fitnesse.jar” command to get things going, but I’m not too familiar with things yet to say for sure and have found some nuggets worth exploring in the unzipped contents folder.

Hope this helps someone with the same limited experience I had!

By: pin

pin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:25:25 +0000

Hi there,

stumbled upon the namespace problem as well. The problem is that the namespace name FitnesseTutorial is a wiki word and thus will be changed by the wiki program. To avoid this, simply put an exclamation mark “!” in front of the fixture, e.g.:

!|FitnesseTutorial.Division|

By: tcmaster

tcmaster — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:47:18 +0000

To David, change the dotnet\FitServer.exe to full path of your fitserver. e.g. c:\fit.net\someversion\fitserver.exe

if you still don’t get it, quit the industry and find another job :)

By: David

David — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:53:52 +0000

Hi
I tried this sample but getting following errors, im using VS2008

How do i check if i have fitserver
all the steps i have done above

java.io.IOException: Cannot run program “dotnet\FitServer.exe”: CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified
java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(Unknown Source)
java.lang.Runtime.exec(Unknown Source)
java.lang.Runtime.exec(Unknown Source)
java.lang.Runtime.exec(Unknown Source)
fitnesse.components.CommandRunner.asynchronousStart(CommandRunner.java:46)
fitnesse.components.CommandRunningFitClient.start(CommandRunningFitClient.java:84)
fitnesse.responders.run.FitTestSystem.start(FitTestSystem.java:52)
fitnesse.responders.run.TestSystemGroup.startTestSystem(TestSystemGroup.java:61)
fitnesse.responders.run.MultipleTestsRunner.startTestSystemAndExecutePages(MultipleTestsRunner.java:94)
fitnesse.responders.run.MultipleTestsRunner.executePagesInTestSystem(MultipleTestsRunner.java:87)
fitnesse.responders.run.MultipleTestsRunner.internalExecuteTestPages(MultipleTestsRunner.java:78)
fitnesse.responders.run.MultipleTestsRunner.executeTestPages(MultipleTestsRunner.java:57)
fitnesse.responders.run.TestResponder.performExecution(TestResponder.java:137)
fitnesse.responders.run.TestResponder.doSending(TestResponder.java:46)
fitnesse.responders.ChunkingResponder.startSending(ChunkingResponder.java:67)
fitnesse.responders.ChunkingResponder.access$000(ChunkingResponder.java:17)
fitnesse.responders.ChunkingResponder$RespondingRunnable.run(ChunkingResponder.java:106)
java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

By: David Campey

David Campey — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:02:28 +0000

Ran through the tutorial last night, it worked, thanks!

Notes on my experience here:
http://campey.blogspot.com/2010/02/fitnesse-myfirsttest.html

By: Vish

Vish — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:10:50 +0000

I have a question on the remote usage. If I have the wiki on a remote box and would like to run the test against my local code how can i do that ? It seems that defining path on the test page has to be a local absolute physical path. How do you envision it in an enterprise framework ? Also how to automate these tests ?

By: pretid

pretid — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:08:30 +0000

Hey,
you should change your tutorial and put the namespace in your wiki test page (it’s easier i think…)

Great tut !

Thanks a lot

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By: Founder

Founder — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:27:07 +0000

Founder : Given: A test in wiki and a fixture class in .net. The test works if a use only one capital char in the classname: Candividenumbers but these combination arn’t working: CanDivideNumbers CandivideNumbers CanDivideNumbers Looks like FIT uses the capital char to determine the namespace? Is there a fix for this?

By: Founder

Founder — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:26:27 +0000

Given:
A test in wiki and a fixture class in .net.

The test works if a use only one captial char in the classname: Candividenumbers

but these combination arn’t working:
CanDivideNumbers
CandivideNumbers
CanDivideNumbers

Looks like FIT uses the capital char to determine the namespace? Is there a fix for this?