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I'm starting to do some installer work using WiX (yay, not Installshield), and I was hoping to make a TDD installer. Does anyone know how to do this?

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It sounds to me more like an integration test than TDD.

As far as I can tell, there are no tests to test MSI per se.

However, you can try something like this (assuming you have a console integration server):

  • after successful assembly, install MSI on a clean virtual machine - if the installation fails (mail, ticket, whatever)
  • execute any integration tags that you have in your project.

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test_installer_wix.pl

msiexec /x product.msi # remove
msiexec /i product.msi /silent # install

ASSERT_EXIST_FILE(PFILE, 'productname/application.exe')
ASSERT_REGKEY_EXISTS()

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