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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
Server-Sent Events (SSE) allow a client to subscribe to messages on a server. The server pushes new messages to the client as they happen. This is an alternative to the client polling the server for new messages. In this article I’ll show how to implement the messaging system shown in the diagram below. This uses … Read more
HttpClient is a dependency. Like any other dependency, you need to pass it into your code (aka dependency injection). By passing it in, you can mock it out in unit tests. There are two approaches to mocking it out: Wrap the HttpClient and mock out the wrapper. Use a real HttpClient with a mocked out … Read more
When you’re mocking a method that’s called multiple times, you may want to change the behavior of the method each time it’s called. The way you do this with Moq is by using SetupSequence(), like this: Note: You can also make it throw an exception in the sequence. Example of code I want to test … 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