Unit Testing WCF Services

Jimmy Rasmussens Blog — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:36:37 GMT

A colleague of mine recently wrote about seperation of concerns in relation to unit testing WCF services.

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Sean.McLellan — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:35:48 GMT

Great post!

In my organization we've been trying to figure out a way to unit test our services and this is exactly the scenario that we've discussed. However, we DO use OperationContext.Current in our services in order to get identity info, and so we're currently developing our unit tests around the client proxy.

I'll be looking forward to your future posts about how to do the integration testing -- I hope there's a way to latch into the WCF pipeline and have OperationContext.Current provide identity information without having to have the service be executing under WCF.

Integration Testing WCF Services

ploeh blog — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:42:34 GMT

In my previous post about unit testing WCF services , I hinted at the need to perform integration testing

re: Unit Testing WCF Services

ploeh — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:54:19 GMT

Hi Sean

Glad you liked the post :)

As you may have noticed, I've just posted my next article about WCF integration testing, although this particular article doesn't address the separation of concerns between service operations and, say, authorization.

I may get to this subject in a later post, but until then, take a look at ServiceAuthorizationManager. Deriving from this class basically lets you write your authorization logic in a central place so you don't need to access OperationContext.Current in a lot of other places. In a custom authorization manager, you can, after authorizing the caller, extract all the necessary information about the caller and create an IPrincipal instance and place it on Thread.CurrentPrincipal.

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ploeh blog — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 21:49:05 GMT

In my post about integration testing of WCF services , I briefly touched on the topic of authorization

re: Unit Testing WCF Services

Brad.Gearon — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:51:04 GMT

I also feel this post is well written and very nicely explained. Looking at it like that makes me wonder why I had questioned the method in the first place.

re: Unit Testing WCF Services

ploeh — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:28:36 GMT

Hi Brad

Thanks - glad you liked it :)

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ploeh blog — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:24:04 GMT

More than a year ago, I wrote my first post on unit testing WCF services . One of my points back then

Unit Testing ADO.NET Data Services

ploeh blog — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:05:28 GMT

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Alex — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:57:21 GMT

A tool like WCFStorm might be useful in this case. It can create test cases and invoke WCF methods so in a way you are doing Unit and Integration testing at the same time.

http://geekswithblogs.net/Erik/archive/2009/04/02/130664.aspx

re: Unit Testing WCF Services

ploeh — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:38:35 GMT

Hi Alex

Thanks for sharing :)