Rory Primrose

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Using GhostDoc to document unit test classes

Posted on March 18, 2009

To follow up on my last post about documenting unit test methods with GhostDoc, a similar concept can be applied to documenting unit test classes.

Add a custom rule under the Classes section in the GhostDoc configuration dialog.

I have used the name “Matches unit test class” and identified type names that end with “Tests”. I have entered the summary documentation with the following value:

The $(TypeName.ShortNameAsSee)
class is used to test the <see cref=”$(TypeName.Words.Verbatim.ExceptLast)” /> class.$(End)

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This produces much nicer documentation that the default documentation provided by Visual Studio.