Unit Testing Kentico Xperience 13 with XUnit

I don't write much and I do not definitely do blogs. But I do write code. And I write tests for code. So when .Net Core became a development model for Kentico Xperience 13, it became a perfect time to have start full unit tests on our code.

I also decided that I will create a series of articles on unit testing Kentico Xperience projects as most of the articles I have looked at covered mostly the basics not an in-depth look of how to fully cover a project with tests.

I reached out to Kentico and shared with them my plan to do the unit testing article series using the MedioClinic Sample Site . The sample project is featured in the Kentico Xperience Training modules. Fortunately, they concurred and here we are.

What to expect from this series? Well, I will be starting with simple unit tests, all the way to having at least 80% code coverage for the whole project. Of course, I will also share the tools used and full source code.

Let's start with the tools first.

• Azure DevOps - Project management, source control and CI/CD:
• Visual Studio 2022  - IDE
• SonarCloud  - Static Code Analysis, Code Coverage
• xUnit  - Testing framework/platform instead of NUnit used and supported by the Kentico Xperience Test Libraries.
• AutoFac.AutoMock  - Auto mocking library to automatically create mock dependencies for both concrete and mock abstract instances in unit tests
• AutoFixture  - for automatically creating test fixtures without hand-coding variables

Also listing below some of the articles specific to unit testing in Kentico
 

• Kentico Documentation  - writing automated tests reference
• Kentico 12: Design Patterns Part 1 - Writing Testable Code  - a great article and an awesome series of articles by Kentico MVP Sean Wright
• Unit Testing Kentico EMS with xUnit  - another great article by Marnix van Valen. He also discussed why xUnit was used instead of NUnit.

Articles in This Series

• 1 - Setting up the Test Project and Writing Our First Test (xUnit, AutoFixture, Kentico Fake)
• Upcoming: 2 - Introduction to Mocking (Moq)
• Upcoming: 3 - Introduction to AutoMock (AutoFac.AutoMock)
• Upcoming: 4 - More xUnit Asserts (Null, Empty, Throws, ThrowsAsync, IsType, Single)
• Upcoming: 5 - More Complex Mocks and Tests (Async Mock, Fakes)
• Upcoming: 6 - Major Test Milestone, Testing BasePageRepository
• Upcoming: 7 - Getting to 90% Code Coverage of XperienceAdapter
• Upcoming: 8 - Setting up the MedioClinic Site Test Project (ViewComponent Testing)
• Upcoming: 9 - Testing FormComponents
• Upcoming: 10 - Testing Controllers
• Upcoming: 11 - Testing Middleware
• Upcoming: 12 - Testing Startup
• Upcoming: 13 - Testing Pages using WebApplicationFactory

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