Out of the box Biztalk unit testing supports only schemas , maps and pipelines. Yet frameworks developed by community like BizUnit, BizMock and Bizmonade support also unit testing of orchestrations. With combination of out of box unit testing through Visual Studio and these frameworks a developer has the tools to test his BizTalk solution. This article will provide with references to the resources enabling you to be productive when it comes to unit testing your solution.
With Visual Studio 2008 the unit test functionality became available and supported unit testing with BizTalk Server 2009 projects. The unit testing feature enables developers to create unit tests for schemas, maps, and pipelines. The following resources will give you guidance on unit testing these artefacts with Visual Studio:
Other frameworks that can be used for unit testing are BizUnit, and BizMock that works seamlessly with Visual Studio unit testing capabilities. Both frameworks are not supported by Microsoft. They are available and supported through CodePlex. The following resource links can provide guidance on how to work with these frameworks:
An alternative to BizUnit or BizMock is Bizmonade. This is a project that being developed to enable unit testing of BizTalk orchestrations, in isolation of other components, without deploying the orchestrations to BizTalk and without doing any configuration (bindings). Subsequently there is also a framework target on unit testing BizTalk Maps called BizTalk Map Test Framework. This framework enables developers to perform tests on their maps using template files and xpath queries. Finally there is also Pipeline Test Library that enables you to test pipeline and pipeline components.
The following resources will provide useful information on unit testing BizTalk Server projects:
Great article. Bizmonade unfortunately seems to have ceased being developed, which is a real shame as it showed great promise.
you seem to have covered the importent topics, great work!