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In theory, Async unit testing seems easy, run the Async, wait until it is finished and look at the results. But as you will find out it is not that easy.
Here is the official approach to Async unit testing
[TestMethod]
public void FourDividedByTwoIsTwo()
{
GeneralThreadAffineContext.Run(async () =>
{
int result = await MyClass.Divide(4, 2);
Assert.AreEqual(2, result);
});
}
[TestMethod]
[ExpectedException(typeof(DivideByZeroException))]
public void DenominatorIsZeroThrowsDivideByZero()
{
GeneralThreadAffineContext.Run(async () =>
{
await MyClass.Divide(4, 0);
});
}Hang on what is GeneralThreadAffineContext, it a Utility code originally distributed as part of the Async CTP, and the project file can be found here: AsyncTestUtilities
Original article: Async Unit Tests, Part 2: The Right Way
Visual Studio Unit Test Tools comes with another excellent feature to manage unit test as a group /subset, called as “Playlist”. A Playlist is a subset of unit test methods grouped under some category. The Playlist could be a logical subset based on modules, features, layers etc. A Playlist is useful when we want to test a particular set of test cases among all the test methods. In that case, we just create a group of those test cases which may get impacted by our current changes in the actual code, and execute them only to ensure nothing breaks.
You can create a playlist either from the Test Explorer or the main menu by navigating to Test –> Playlist. Let’s have a look how we can do that.
The rest I’m sure you can work out for yourself, if you want more information on this check out Daily .NET Tips
If you need to create some Fake MVC objects for testing MVC objects then here you are:
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Web.Routing;
using System.Web.SessionState;
using MvcContrib.TestHelper.Fakes;
public class FakeControllerContext : ControllerContext
{
public FakeControllerContext(IController controller)
: this(controller, null, null, null, null, null, null)
{
}
public FakeControllerContext(IController controller, HttpCookieCollection cookies)
: this(controller, null, null, null, null, cookies, null)
{
}
public FakeControllerContext(IController controller, SessionStateItemCollection sessionItems)
: this(controller, null, null, null, null, null, sessionItems)
{
}
public FakeControllerContext(IController controller, NameValueCollection formParams)
: this(controller, null, null, formParams, null, null, null)
{
}
public FakeControllerContext(IController controller, NameValueCollection formParams, NameValueCollection queryStringParams)
: this(controller, null, null, formParams, queryStringParams, null, null)
{
}
public FakeControllerContext(IController controller, string userName)
: this(controller, userName, null, null, null, null, null)
{
}
public FakeControllerContext(IController controller, string userName, string[] roles)
: this(controller, userName, roles, null, null, null, null)
{
}
public FakeControllerContext
(
IController controller,
string userName,
string[] roles,
NameValueCollection formParams,
NameValueCollection queryStringParams,
HttpCookieCollection cookies,
SessionStateItemCollection sessionItems
)
: base(new FakeHttpContext(new FakePrincipal(new FakeIdentity(userName), roles), formParams, queryStringParams, cookies, sessionItems), new RouteData(), (Controller)controller)
{ }
}
using System;
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.Security.Principal;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.SessionState;
public class FakeHttpContext : HttpContextBase
{
private readonly FakePrincipal principal;
private readonly NameValueCollection formParams;
private readonly NameValueCollection queryStringParams;
private readonly HttpCookieCollection cookies;
private readonly SessionStateItemCollection sessionItems;
public FakeHttpContext(FakePrincipal principal, NameValueCollection formParams, NameValueCollection queryStringParams, HttpCookieCollection cookies, SessionStateItemCollection sessionItems)
{
this.principal = principal;
this.formParams = formParams;
this.queryStringParams = queryStringParams;
this.cookies = cookies;
this.sessionItems = sessionItems;
}
public override HttpRequestBase Request
{
get
{
return new FakeHttpRequest(this.formParams, this.queryStringParams, this.cookies);
}
}
public override IPrincipal User
{
get
{
return this.principal;
}
set
{
throw new NotImplementedException();
}
}
public override HttpSessionStateBase Session
{
get
{
return this.sessionItems == null ? null : new FakeHttpSessionState(this.sessionItems);
}
}
}
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.Web;
public class FakeHttpRequest : HttpRequestBase
{
private readonly NameValueCollection formParams;
private readonly NameValueCollection queryStringParams;
private readonly HttpCookieCollection cookies;
public FakeHttpRequest(NameValueCollection formParams, NameValueCollection queryStringParams, HttpCookieCollection cookies)
{
this.formParams = formParams;
this.queryStringParams = queryStringParams;
this.cookies = cookies;
}
public override NameValueCollection Form
{
get
{
return this.formParams;
}
}
public override NameValueCollection QueryString
{
get
{
return this.queryStringParams;
}
}
public override HttpCookieCollection Cookies
{
get
{
return this.cookies;
}
}
}
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.SessionState;
public class FakeHttpSessionState : HttpSessionStateBase
{
private readonly SessionStateItemCollection sessionItems;
public FakeHttpSessionState(SessionStateItemCollection sessionItems)
{
this.sessionItems = sessionItems;
}
public override void Add(string name, object value)
{
this.sessionItems[name] = value;
}
public override int Count
{
get
{
return this.sessionItems.Count;
}
}
public override IEnumerator GetEnumerator()
{
return this.sessionItems.GetEnumerator();
}
public override NameObjectCollectionBase.KeysCollection Keys
{
get
{
return this.sessionItems.Keys;
}
}
public override object this[string name]
{
get
{
return this.sessionItems[name];
}
set
{
this.sessionItems[name] = value;
}
}
public override object this[int index]
{
get
{
return this.sessionItems[index];
}
set
{
this.sessionItems[index] = value;
}
}
public override void Remove(string name)
{
this.sessionItems.Remove(name);
}
}
using System.Linq;
using System.Security.Principal;
public class FakePrincipal : IPrincipal
{
private readonly IIdentity identity;
private readonly string[] roles;
public FakePrincipal(IIdentity identity, string[] roles)
{
this.identity = identity;
this.roles = roles;
}
public IIdentity Identity
{
get { return this.identity; }
}
public bool IsInRole(string role)
{
return this.roles != null && this.roles.Contains(role);
}
}
The original article and source is from Stephen Walter Faking the Controller Context
With Visual Studio keep changing the way you create unit tests I thought I’d document down how to test a private method the easy way.
Here is a simple HomeController and we want to test that the GetPageSize method return 20 in a unit test.
public class HomeController : Controller
{
public ActionResult Index()
{
var pageSize = GetPageSize();
return View(pageSize);
}
private int GetPageSize()
{
return 20;
}
}
As GetPageSize is a private method we’ll need to use the PrivateObject class to return the methods result, this is quite easy, from the Unit Test project make sure you have a reference to your MVC project and then reference the HomeController and invoke the method you need the result back from:
[TestMethod]
public void CheckPageSizeIs20()
{
PrivateObject privateObject = new PrivateObject(typeof(HomeController));
int pageSize;
pageSize = (int)privateObject.Invoke("GetPageSize");
Assert.AreEqual(20, pageSize);
}
If you need to pass in parameters to the private method then you can pass in an anonymous type
var actual = (IEnumerable<ActivityData>)privateObject.Invoke("GetAllUnassignedJobs", new object[] { filterData, uniqueJobs });
Reference: How to test a class member that is not public
Thanks to Karthik for googleing the answer