Technical requirements

Before jumping into the hands-on examples in this chapter, let’s recap what should already be in place from the previous chapter:

• The Test Engine executable should be built on your local machine. Chapter 6 covered installing prerequisites such as the .NET Core SDK and then compiling the Test Engine source code from GitHub.

Note

As mentioned in Chapter 6, Microsoft has recently announced the new release of the PAC client, which now includes a new tests command. This essentially runs an embedded Test Engine executable. Although it is still in preview at the time of writing this book, it presents an alternative way to execute the tests that we craft in this chapter. We will delve into this new method in an Appendix section at the end of this chapter.

• We will need to import the BasicGallery_1_0_0_2.zip sample solution, which can be found in the TestEngine repository. For convenience, it has also been added to the repository for this...