Unit Testing in NT8

[gregid]

It has been recurring theme in the past - unit testing for strategies and indicators. The recommendation was to wait for NT8 beta release for some more details regarding changes in the area.

So my question is can we (and how would we approach it) use unit testing with NT8?
Do you have any recommendations/samples to start with
Have any users succesfully implemented unit testing in their NT8 development?

[NinjaTrader_Jesse]

Hello,

Thank you for the question.

I have put in a question to Product Management in regard to unit testing NinjaScript items.
Once I have further information on this subject I will reply back.

Please let me know if I may be of further assistance.

[NinjaTrader_Brett]

We did not make any explicit documentation for unit testing or any features in the product to help you do unit testing. This could be something we explore in the future but not in the near term.

For now I would recommend if you want to get started you treat it similar to how we would. Which is setup your own visual studio project manually. Add in NinjaTrader.Core.Dll and NinjaTrader.Gui.DLL references from your NinjaTrader install directory (c:\Program Files\NinjaTrader 8) and add in existing files from the (My Documents\NinjaTrader 8\bin\custom) directory. Then setup a visual studio test project or NUnit test project from there. However the unit testing you would be able to do is rather limited since you could only test code paths in your own code and not test anything that depends on NinjaTrader data or starting a indicator/strategy.

For setting up bars, and data + simulating indicators/strategy startup from a Unit Test I currently do not have any valid approach to recommend at this time. This is similar to Starting a Strategy/Indicator programmatically and has been an item on the requested functionality list for NT8 so I will add your vote to the list to look into that further as well.

-Brett