Question

Background:

I’m testing a function within an ASP.NET 4.0 (Web Forms not MVC) and I’m using Unit Testing built into Visual Studio 2010. I’ve created a separate test project and creating a test class for each class in the web project.

Question:

I’ve run into an issue with one of the functions that uses HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name as part of the logic. How do set that value in the Unit testing project class or method so that I can test that function?

Update:

What I was hoping for was that there was additional attribute I could set above my test method. Currently I have:

[TestMethod()]
[HostType("ASP.NET")]
[AspNetDevelopmentServerHost("C:\\DEV\\ProjectName\\ClientWeb", "/")]
[UrlToTest("http://localhost:9018/")]
public void GetLoginTest()
{
  // test code
}

Answer 1

You ask the wrong question. HttpContext.Current.User.Identity is a dependency you should encapsulate before you can unit test your code. If encapsulated (probably behind an Interface) you can replace the abstraction with your test data / object.