I am new to unit testing , I want to check whether a function has called using sinnon . I have a function as below.
function average(a,b){
return (a+b)/2;
}
I try to check with the sinon.spy() method. But I could not understand where I should use sinon.spy() to check whether this function has called or not. Any kind of help would be appreciated.
var spy = sinon.spy(average);
var result = spy(5,3);
expect(spy.called).to.be.true;
expect(result).to.equal(4);
this test will give 1 passes and 0 failures.
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I'm fairly new to using Moq and Nunit for unit testing and I'm having issues with one scenario. What I want is for my mock to have an out parameters which my system under test will then use to decide what action to take.
My system under test is an MVC API controller and in particular I'm trying to test the POST method. I want to return an error message for the object when validation fails.
Here is the method code for the controller:
public IHttpActionResult Post(Candidate candidate)
{
try
{
if(candidate==null)
return BadRequest();
IEnumerable<string> errors;
_candidateManager.InsertCandidate(candidate, out errors);
if (errors!=null && errors.Any())
return BadRequest(CreateErrorMessage("Invalid candidate: ", errors));
return CreatedAtRoute("DefaultApi", new {id = candidate.CandidateId}, candidate);
}
catch (Exception)
{
return InternalServerError();
}
}
This is my Unit Test Code:
[Test]
[Category("CandidateManagerController Unit Tests")]
public void Should_Return_Bad_Request_When_Creating_Invalid_Candidate()
{
IEnumerable<string> errors = new List<string>() {"error1", "error2"};
var mockManager = new Mock<ICandidateManager>();
mockManager.Setup(x => x.InsertCandidate(new Candidate(), out errors)).Callback(()=>GetErrors(errors));
var sut = new CandidateManagerController(mockManager.Object);
var actionResult = sut.Post(new Candidate());
Assert.IsInstanceOf<BadRequestResult>(actionResult);
}
What I expect is that when _candidateManager.InsertCandidate() is run then the errors variable is populated. However what is happening is that when you step through the controller code errors is null after _candidateManager.InsertCandidate() method is run.
If anyone has any ideas what I'm doing wrong or if what I want to do is not possible using Moq then please let me know.
Thanks
What you want to do is possible. If you look at the Quickstart docs at https://github.com/Moq/moq4/wiki/Quickstart, there is a section where it shows how you do setups for methods using out params. I have made two corrections to your code and it works.
You have to use the same candidate instance for both the mock setup and when you exercise the sut. Otherwise, Moq thinks that the two objects are different and your test setup becomes useless.
You don't have to use Callback in order to set the errors returned by the mocked CandidateManager.
Below is your test method with my changes.
[Test]
[Category("CandidateManagerController Unit Tests")]
public void Should_Return_Bad_Request_When_Creating_Invalid_Candidate()
{
IEnumerable<string> errors = new List<string>() {"error1", "error2"};
//instance to be used for both setup and test later
var candidate = new Candidate();
var mockManager = new Mock<ICandidateManager>();
//removed Callback
mockManager.Setup(x => x.InsertCandidate(candidate, out errors));
var sut = new CandidateManagerController(mockManager.Object);
var actionResult = sut.Post(candidate);
Assert.IsInstanceOf<BadRequestResult>(actionResult);
}
You have to make sure that when you call your SUT that you use the same instance passed to the out argument otherwise the call will fail.
In your example, the method under test passes a null instance into the mocked method thus negating the setup of the test.
If however you are not able to supply the same instances for the out then it doesn't look like you will be able to get a mock to pass successfully. Take a look a the Quick Start for Moq to get an understanding of it capabilities.
Edit: Why doesn't Moq run the overridden ToString method? gives the hint. I had to set filtermock.CallBase to true. Now it works.
I'm trying to write a unittest for an asp.net webapi project. What I want to do is, to test a function with its corresponding filter. I setup the controller and the filter moq objects like this:
var filtermock= new Mock<MyActionFilterAttribute>();
filtermock.SetupGet(attr => attr.UserId).Returns(userName);
[...]
var controllermock = new Mock<MyController>();
var filtermock = new Mock<MyActionFilterAttribute>();
The unittest looks like this:
var controller = controllermock.Object;
var filter = filtermock.Object;
await filter.OnActionExecutingAsync(null, CancellationToken.None);
await controller.MyTestFunction();
await filter.OnActionExecutedAsync(null, CancellationToken.None);
The problem is, that the overridden functions OnActionExecutingAsync and OnActionExecudedAsync are not beeing called when i run/debug the test. I guess the baseclasses of ActionFilterAttribute are called? Could anyone give me a hint what I am doing wrong here?
How do you expect filtermock to ever be called? It does not appear the filtermock is associated to the controllermock so the controllermock is not even aware of the filtermock.
This is the same issue I am trying to resolve myself: how to inject an action filter into a controller.
In my unit test, I mock a service (which is a ref of the class under test).
Like:
given:
def mockXxService = mockFor(XxService)
mockXxService.demand.xxx(1) {->}
service.xxService = mockXxService
when:
service.yyy()
then:
// verify mockXxService's xxx method is invoked.
For my unit test, I want to verify that mockXxService.xxx() is called. But grails document's mockControl.verify() doesn't work for me. Not sure how to use it correctly.
It is very similar to mockito's verify method.
Anyone knows it?
You are using spock for your unit test, you should be easily able to use spock's MockingApi check invocations:
given:
def mockXxService = Mock(XxService)
service.xxService = mockXxService
when:
service.yyy()
then:
1 * mockXxService.xxx(_) //assert xxx() is called once
You could get more insight about mocking from spockframework docs.
You can even stub and mock that while mocking the concerned service as:
def mockXxService = Mock(XxService) {
1 * xxx(_)
}
If you want Mockito-like behavior in Grails unit tests - just use Mockito. It is far more convenient than Grails' mocking methods.
I've got a service, which is using sendJMSMessage method which is provided by jms-grails plugin.
I want to write some unit tests, but I'm not sure how to "mock" this method, so it just does nothing at all.
Any tips?
You can metaClass the method to have it return whatever you want.
#Test
void pluginCode() {
def myService = new MyService()
def wasCalled = false
myService.metaClass.sendJMSMessage = {String message ->
//I like to have an assert in here to test what's being passed in so I can ensure wiring is correct
wasCalled = true
null //this is what the method will now return
}
def results = myService.myServiceMethodThatCallsPlugin()
assert wasCalled
}
I like to have a wasCalled flag when I'm returning null from a metaClassed method because I don't particularly like asserting that the response is null because it doesn't really assure that you're wired up correctly. If you're returning something kind of unique though you can do without the wasCalled flag.
In the above example I used 1 String parameter but you can metaClass out any number/type of parameters to match what actually happens.
Is it possible to mock a stub/mock's object member call without having to define that as a stub, and also set the return value as all seperate verbose lines?
Example:
[TestMethod]
public void AssignedPermissions_AssociateExists_ReturnsEdit_Rhino()
{
//Arrange
var fakeConfiguration = MockRepository.GenerateStub<IDomainControllerConfiguration>();
var fakeAssociateRepository = MockRepository.GenerateStub<IAssociateRepository>();
fakeConfiguration.Stub(x => x.AssociateRepository).Return(fakeAssociateRepository);
fakeAssociateRepository.Stub(x=>x.GetAssociatesByRole(null,false,null)).IgnoreArguments()
.Return(new IAssociate[]{MockRepository.GenerateStub<IAssociate>()});
var domain = new DomainController(fakeConfiguration);
const AssignedPermission expected = AssignedPermission.Edit;
//Act
AssignedPermission actual = domain.AssignedPermissions();
//Assert
Assert.AreEqual(expected, actual);
}
Are all those temporary variables necessary just to stub out nested method calls?
I've never used the functionality, so I'm not 100% certain that this will work, but theoretically Rhino mocks supports "recursive mocking", which should allow you to at least cut out the fakeAssociateRepository by doing something like this:
var fakeConfiguration = MockRepository.GenerateStub<IDomainControllerConfiguration>();
fakeConfiguration.Stub(x => x.AssociateRepository.GetAssociatesByRole(null,false,null))
.IgnoreArguments()
.Return(new IAssociate[]{MockRepository.GenerateStub<IAssociate>()});
var domain = new DomainController(fakeConfiguration);
(note: code not tested, or even compiled)
Just wanted to share my input on this, since I just spent the last few hours wrestling with it. The answer posted above by Alconja absolutely works, but if you plan to use it for "AssertWasCalled" type of assertion, it does not assert the way I expected it to. It seems that the AssertWasCalled methods tried to assert the "get accessor" associated with the "nested" object.
For instance, if you wanted to do this:
fakeconfiguration.AssertWasCalled(x => x.AssociateRepository.GetAssociatesByRole(null, false, null));
You would get an exception such as
System.InvalidOperationException : Previous method 'IDomainControllerConfiguration.get_AssociateRepository();' requires a return value or an exception to throw.
Because the AssertWasCalled is asserting the get-accessor of the AssociateRepository property, rather than the GetAssociatesByRole() method. In the end, for my case I had to use the OP's methodology of creating mutliple stubs.