I have seen many posts and questions about "Mocking a private method" but still cannot make it work and not found a real answer.
Lets forget the code smell and you should not do it etc….
From what I understand I have done the following:
1) Created a class Library "MyMoqSamples"
2) Added a ref to Moq and NUnit
3) Edited the AssemblyInfo file and added
[assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("DynamicProxyGenAssembly2")]
[assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("MyMoqSamples")]
4) Now need to test a private method.Since it's a private method it's not part of an interface.
5) added the following code
[TestFixture]
public class Can_test_my_private_method
{
[Test]
public void Should_be_able_to_test_my_private_method()
{
// TODO how do I test my DoSomthing method?
}
}
public class CustomerInfo
{
public string Name { get; set; }
public string Surname { get; set; }
}
public interface ICustomerService
{
List<CustomerInfo> GetCustomers();
}
public class CustomerService : ICustomerService
{
public List<CustomerInfo> GetCustomers()
{
return new List<CustomerInfo> { new CustomerInfo { Surname = "Bloggs", Name = "Jo" } };
}
protected virtual void DoSomething()
{
}
}
Could you provide me an example on how you would test my private method?
Thanks a lot
Best Answer
The steps you're describing set Moq up to test internal classes and members so have nothing really to do with testing a protected or private method
Testing private methods is a bit of a smell, you should really test just the public API. If you feel that the method is really important and needs to be tested in isolation perhaps it deserves to be in its own class where it can then be tested on its own?
If your heart is set on testing the protected method above you can roll your own Mock in your test assembly:
If it was private you could probably do something dodgy with reflection but going that route is the way to testing hell.
Update
While you've given sample code in your question I don't really see how you want to "test" the protected method so I'll come up with something contrived...
Lets say your customer service looks like this:-
If you wanted to test the protected method you can just do something like:-
The name of this "pattern" is Test specific subclass (based on xUnit test patterns terminology) for more info you might want to see here:-
http://xunitpatterns.com/Test-Specific%20Subclass.html
Based on your comments and previous question it seems like you've been tasked with implementing unit tests on some legacy code (or made the decision yourself). In which case the bible of all things legacy code is the book by Michael Feathers. It covers techniques like this as well as refactorings and techniques to deal with breaking down "untestable" classes and methods into something more manageable and I highly recommend it.