pbi-crash-tests | Load & crash tests for Power BI reports

pbi-crash-tests is a C# library. pbi-crash-tests has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

These tests were originally developed in the context of Barberini Analytics, a data analysis project which included the making of about a dozen visualization reports using the Business Intelligence software Power BI (PBI). These reports are stored as PBIX or PBIT files in the project repository. To assure overall stability and quickly identify regressions in any report (for instance, caused by changes to the database schema or the unavailability of external access points), tests were written that open every single report file in Power BI Desktop and make sure that it does not show any error message or crashes during loading it. Because Power BI Desktop does not provide any programming interface for making such assertions, the tests are implemented as UI tests using mechanisms such as counting the number of open windows (> 1 means there is any loading/error window) and scanning the screenshots of these windows for known error icons. As a side effect, screenshots of all loaded reports including possible error messages are token to provide fast insights into the source of errors. The tests can be run automatically as a part of a CI pipeline. Due to the system requirements of PBI Desktop, this requires a (virtual) Windows machine and a Power BI license. Keywords: Power BI, Power BI Desktop, Power BI CI testing, Power BI acceptance tests, Power BI UI tests, Power BI crash tests.