Question

I have an ASP.Net MVC3 project that calls a WCF service to get data. The WCF service in turn uses managers and repositories etc. (in other class library projects) to get the required data.

I have applied Ninject on both the web project and the WCF project. Because I used Nuget to install Ninject MVC3, it has created a class in APP_START with bootstrapper, webactivator etc.

Now I want to write unit tests using Microsoft’s testing framework, and not NUnit etc.

How do I get started? That is, what do I write in the unit test classes to use Ninject to provide mock implementations of interfaces to the web and wcf projects?

The examples I have seen, use Moq extension, which seems complex at first sight. I’d rather go without Moq if possible.

I would appreciate any links, examples, related responses, etc.
Thanks

Answer 1

You shouldn’t use Ninject to create instances of the classes you want to test. Just create an instance of the controller or service you want to test and pass a mock object as constructor parameter for each dependency.