Asp – SubSonic3 clearing test data/database in unit test TearDown operation

I'm using a version of some code Steve Sanderson included in his Pro Asp.NET MVC book... and I'm currently having a moral dilemma whether it's okay to post the code here. How about I compromise with a highly stripped down version? ;)

So this can easily be reused, create a class similar to the one below that you will pass your controller. This will set up your mocks and set them to your controller's ControllerContext

public class ContextMocks
{
    public Moq.Mock<HttpContextBase> HttpContext { get; set; }
    public Moq.Mock<HttpRequestBase> Request { get; set; }
    public RouteData RouteData { get; set; }

    public ContextMocks(Controller controller)
    {
        //define context objects
        HttpContext = new Moq.Mock<HttpContextBase>();
        HttpContext.Setup(x => x.Request).Returns(Request.Object);
        //you would setup Response, Session, etc similarly with either mocks or fakes

        //apply context to controller
        RequestContext rc = new RequestContext(HttpContext.Object, new RouteData());
        controller.ControllerContext = new ControllerContext(rc, controller);
    }
}

And then in your test method you'd just create an instance of ContextMocks and pass in the controller object you're testing:

[Test]
Public void test()
{
     var mocks = new ContextMocks(controller);
     var req = controller.Request; 
     //do some asserts on Request object
}

Seems very similar to Craig's examples, but this is with Moq v3. I have to give props to Steve Sanderson for this - I'm using this as a basis for testing all kinds of otherwise traditionally hard-to-test stuff: cookies, session, request method, querystring and more!

Here's a blog post on unit testing custom authorization components. It doesn't address RoleProviders and MembershipProviders, but you should be able to effectively use the same method for testing any number of filters.

http://darioquintana.com.ar/blogging/2009/05/23/aspnet-mvc-testing-a-custom-authorize-filters/

Disclaimer: It might take a couple of parses to understand it - it's not very clearly written and the example code provided doesn't exactly cut to the chase either, but you should be able to glean what you need from it.