0016-tools-for-building-unit-tests.md

0016 Tools For Building Unit Tests

• Status: accepted

Context and Problem Statement

Which frameworks can be adopted within the PTFYS that will aid the developer to create clear, concise unit tests quickly and help facilitate TDD?

Decision Drivers

• Open source
• Within DfE’s Technical Guidance
• Moq is used by the following services
  • Dfe.Academies.External
  • find-a-tuition-partner
• AutoFixture can be used to is used by the following services to generate
  • amsd-casework
  • prepare-academy-conversions

Considered Options

Mocking

• Moq
• FakeItEasy
• Rhino Mocks
• JustMock
• Microsoft Fakes (Visual Studio Enterprise edition)

Test Data

• AutoFixture
• NBuilder
• Bogus

Assertions

• Fluent Assertions
• NFluent
• Shouldly
• MSTest/NUnit and xUnit built-in assertions

Decision Outcome

We will use Moq and xUnit for our testing purposes, as these are the two most popular testing packages currently available in their respective domains.