Unit Testing SharePoint Applications the easy way

 

“Typemock Isolator is a great way to open up the world of unit testing 
to SharePoint developers. Unit testing SharePoint applications is an 
important part of our soon to be released P&P SharePoint Guidance 
and Typemock Isolator is integral to our unit testing guidance.”
Ajoy Krishnamoorthy, Lead Product Planner for Patterns & Practices,Developer Division at Microsoft

 

 

How to unit test your SharePoint custom code by isolating the object model (SPSite)

The biggest problem with testing SharePoint code, is its dependency on the SharePoint object model. The following example shows how to easily unit test your custom code. Here's the method we want to test:

public List GetUrgentTasks()
{
    var site = new SPSite("http://sharepoint.typemock.com");
    var taskList = site.OpenWeb().Lists[TASKS_LIST_NAME];
    var urgentTasks = new List();
    foreach (SPItem item in taskList.Items)
    {    
        urgentTasks.Add(item);
    }
    return urgentTasks;
}

  

Here's how the test looks like:

[TestMethod]
[Isolated]
public void GetAllTasks_ThreeItemsInTasksList_ThreeTaskItemsFound()
{
   // Recursive fake - complete SPSite object model is faked
   var fakeSite = Isolate.Fake.Instance();
   // Swap future instance of SPSite
   Isolate.Swap.NextInstance().With(fakeSite);
   // Retrieve a fake SPList to set behavior
   var fakeTaskList = fakeSite.OpenWeb().Lists[TASKS_LIST_NAME];
   // Create a fake SPListItem
   var fakeItem = Isolate.Fake.Instance();
   // List collection shall return an array containing three fake items
   Isolate.WhenCalled(()=>fakeTaskList.Items).WillReturnCollectionValuesOf
   (new[] {fakeItem, fakeItem, fakeItem}); 
   // Call the method under test
   var urgentTasks = classUnderTest.GetAllTasks(); 
   Assert.AreEqual(3, urgentTasks.Count);
}

 

Learn more:

• Browse the SharePoint examples installed with Isolator. 
  All Programs->Typemock->Isolator ->Examples->Typemock.Examples.SharePoint.sln
•  See online documentation example
•  Watch a 35 minute Webinar Recording on How to unit test SharePoint WebParts and User Administration Code

Articles how others are using Isolator to test SharePoint Code:

• How to test SharePoint development code
• Developer testing of Sharepoint Webparts using Typemock Isolator and Ivonna
• Typemock Isolator and SharePoint testing