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Testing - develop a testing strategy for async and real-time streaming functions

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Description

RTD-based async and streaming functions are easy to develop with Excel-DNA, but remain hard to test. We need a plan for these and perhaps some helpers in the Testing framework. It would be a start idea to see and document how async and IObservable functions are tested in .NET elsewhere, and see if there's a way to adapt this to the Excel environment. Behaviour of these features under 'manual' calculation mode is also quite different to automatic mode, and can perhaps be some help in knowing when to check values.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing Testing framework and how async and IObservable functions are tested in .NET elsewhere. Compare those approaches with Excel-DNA behavior in automatic and manual calculation modes; done means a documented testing strategy and a clear decision on whether helpers can be adapted.

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Assessment

Tech stack
csharp
Domain
testing-qa
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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