In the third part of a series, I focus on drawing the constraints’ descriptions and the colours. And also a bit of PowerShell for automation.

The post is a second part of the series. In the previous one, I created an SVG image of the simple SSIS package, but when I tried to draw something advanced (upper image below) I got something far from expected (lower image below). This time I’ll fix it.

For one of my projects, I need to draw the content of an SSIS package. It should not be a big problem, as the file contains all the required information. If you need to do something similar - I write a series of posts on how to achieve it using SVG, XSLT transformations and a bit of PowerShell (and maybe something more along the way). All the code is available on GitHub.

In the post about using MSTest framework to execute ssisUnit tests, I used parts of the ssisUnit API model. If you want, you can write all your tests using this model, and this post will guide you through the first steps. I will show you how to write one of the previously prepared XML tests using C# and (again) MSTest.

In the Q & A post after the webinar on ssisUnit (in 2013) John Welch answered the question about the loops:

When you set the packages’ references in the ssisUnit tests you have four options for the source (StoragePath) of the package:

In the previous post, I wrote about using datasets in the ssisUnit test. By default, the dataset query is executed against the data source each time the test is run. But we also have an option to store the dataset’s result in the test file. In this post, I will show you how you can use it.

One of the elements you can define in ssisUnit is a Dataset. In this post of the ssisUnit series, I will show you how to prepare and use it later in a test.

Previously we successfully prepared tests for variables and parameters using VariableCommandand and ParameterCommand. Now it’s time to communicate with the database, and for that, I will use connection manager defined on the project level. I know from the ssisUnit tutorials it works perfect with package connection managers, so it’s time to verify it against the projects. I will test the package 10_ProjectCM.dtsx - it is just getting a single value from the table in a database and…

Previously I wrote about the importance of testing the SSIS packages and introduced you to ssisUnit. In this post, I will show you how to write simple tests for the variables and parameters using Test Suite Builder. As I wrote before: just start slow and small, don’t write your first tests for the most complicated part of the package.