Sunday 2 August 2009

Unit Testing - HttpSimulator

Have you ever wondered how to simulate HttpContext so that you can write your unit tests? TypeMock can do that but it's not a free tool.

HttpSimulator is a component composed of 2 classes; I am not sure whether Phil Haak has written it himself but it solves that problem nicely. You can download it from the bottom of this post.

Code sample:

Test:
public static HttpSimulator CreateHttpSimulator()
{
return new HttpSimulator("/", @"c:\inetpub\").SimulateRequest();
}

[TestMethod()]
public void SetSessionTest()
{
using (Helper.CreateHttpSimulator())
{
// setup
var expectedValue = 2;
// exercise
Utils.SetSession(SessionKey.Basket, expectedValue);
// verify
var actualValue = Utils.GetFromSession(SessionKey.Basket);
Assert.AreEqual(expectedValue, actualValue);
}
}
System Under Test:

public static void SetSession(SessionKey key, object value)
{
HttpContext.Current.Session[key.ToString()] = value;
}

public static object GetFromSession(SessionKey key)
{
if (HttpContext.Current == null HttpContext.Current.Session == null)
throw new ApplicationException("HttpContext.Current.Session is null");

if (HttpContext.Current.Session[key.ToString()] == null)
return null;

return HttpContext.Current.Session[key.ToString()];
}

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Hi Pooya,

First - thanks for mentioning Typemock Isolator.

I'm assuming you're using this a lot in your app. Is this enough, or do you need to wrap more objects as well?

Thanks

Gil Zilberfeld
Typemock