Question

I am trying to use the AAA syntax in Rhino Mocks with VB.Net to validate that a method was called only one time. I can’t seem to get it right. With this code, if the repository is called twice, it returns nothing on the second call, and the test passes. I would have expected the test to fail when VerifyAllExpectations was called.

<TestMethod()>
Public Sub GetDataCallsRepositoryOneTime()
    Dim repository As IDataRepository = MockRepository.GenerateMock(Of IDataRepository)()
    Dim cacheRepository As New CachingDataRepository(repository)
    Dim results1 As IEnumerable(Of DataItem)
    Dim results2 As IEnumerable(Of DataItem)

    'verify that the base repository was asked for its data one time only
    repository.Expect(Function(x) x.GetData(1)).Return(GetSampleData).Repeat.Once()

    results1 = cacheRepository.GetData(1)
    results2 = cacheRepository.GetData(1)

    sdr.VerifyAllExpectations()
End Sub

Answer 1

If you are using VS2010 you get much improved lamba support (including a much better experience using Rhino Mocks with VB)

I outline how to use AAA syntax w/ rhino mocks here (using c#) but to answer your question quickly you could do the following

First the class you want to verify some interactive behavior (super simple but it works)

Public Class Class1
    Public Overridable Sub Happy()

    End Sub

    Public Overridable Sub DoIt()
        Me.Happy()
        Me.Happy()
    End Sub
End Class

Next the test written using AAA + vb to prove the Happy method gets called 2x

<TestClass()>
Public Class UnitTest2

    <TestMethod()>
    Public Sub TestMethod1()
        Dim x = MockRepository.GeneratePartialMock(Of Class1)()

        x.DoIt()

        x.AssertWasCalled(Sub(y) y.Happy(), Sub(z) z.Repeat.Times(2))
    End Sub

End Class