NUnit and Session state

[Mark]

I'm building some NUnit tests for the business classes in my ASP.NET
application. Some of the business classes use Session to store information.
NUnit does not generate a Session, so the code below bombs when a

HttpContext.Current.Session["some_key"];

Any suggestions on the best alternative for working around this, without
making a hack job out of the code? I can check the HttpContext.Current and
check to see if it is null, but where/how should I store the alternative
session information? Not sure if it is relevant, but I'm not using
NUnitAsp.

Thanks in advance.
Mark

[Scott Allen]

HI Mark:

There are a couple tips on this page:
http://home.iprimus.com.au/lachlanb/nunitasp/nunit.html

--
Scott
http://www.OdeToCode.com/blogs/scott/

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 16:10:28 -0600, "Mark" <Ma**@nowhere.com> wrote:

I'm building some NUnit tests for the business classes in my ASP.NET
application. Some of the business classes use Session to store information.
NUnit does not generate a Session, so the code below bombs when a

HttpContext.Current.Session["some_key"];

Any suggestions on the best alternative for working around this, without
making a hack job out of the code? I can check the HttpContext.Current and
check to see if it is null, but where/how should I store the alternative
session information? Not sure if it is relevant, but I'm not using
NUnitAsp.

Thanks in advance.
Mark

[bruce barker]

you should switch to the factory model for session management, them you can
supply a mock session handler for the unit tests.
-- bruce (sqlwork.com)


"Mark" <Ma**@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
| I'm building some NUnit tests for the business classes in my ASP.NET
| application. Some of the business classes use Session to store
information.
| NUnit does not generate a Session, so the code below bombs when a
|
| HttpContext.Current.Session["some_key"];
|
| Any suggestions on the best alternative for working around this, without
| making a hack job out of the code? I can check the HttpContext.Current
and
| check to see if it is null, but where/how should I store the alternative
| session information? Not sure if it is relevant, but I'm not using
| NUnitAsp.
|
| Thanks in advance.
| Mark
|
|

[Joerg Jooss]

Mark wrote:

I'm building some NUnit tests for the business classes in my ASP.NET
application. Some of the business classes use Session to store
information. NUnit does not generate a Session, so the code below
bombs when a

HttpContext.Current.Session["some_key"];

Any suggestions on the best alternative for working around this,
without making a hack job out of the code?

You've tightly coupled your business logic with your web UI -- and
found out that it's a bad idea. Just don't do that. Pass your business
objects the data they need and keep them free of all ASP.NET/HTTP/web
stuff. All of a sudden, your code becomes clean & testable :-)

Cheers,
--
http://www.joergjooss.de
mailto:ne********@joergjooss.de

[alex_f_il]

Have you seen
SWExplorerAutomation(http:\\home.comcast.net/~furmana/SWIEAutomation.htm)?
You can write tests by automating IE. It means that all functionality
of Web Application can be tested, including client scripts.

Mark wrote:

I'm building some NUnit tests for the business classes in my ASP.NET
application. Some of the business classes use Session to store information. NUnit does not generate a Session, so the code below bombs when a

HttpContext.Current.Session["some_key"];

Any suggestions on the best alternative for working around this, without making a hack job out of the code? I can check the HttpContext.Current and check to see if it is null, but where/how should I store the alternative session information? Not sure if it is relevant, but I'm not using
NUnitAsp.

Thanks in advance.
Mark