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Testing code with a dependency on an event can be tricky. You may be tempted to directly unit test the event handling method. However, that doesn’t prove that code under test is listening for the event. It’s better to really fire the event, and then test side effects of the event handling method. Firing the … Read more
In ASP.NET, when you need a long-running background task, or need to run a task periodically, you can implement IHostedService or BackgroundService and register your class as a hosted service in Startup. As you may have already encountered, if you try to run a long-running background task, the web server will randomly kill your task … Read more
Let’s say you have the following async method you want to test: Here’s how to unit test this: This is awaiting the method you’re testing. To await it, you must make the unit test method return async Task. This example is a bit simplistic. In the real world when you are working with async methods, … Read more
The need to mock static methods in order to add a unit test is a very common problem. It’s often the case that these static methods are in third-party libraries. There are many utility libraries that are completely made up of static methods. While this makes them very easy to use, it makes them really … Read more