Dependency Injection, Code Coverage, Debugging & More I love VS Code. I also love Azure Durable Functions. And unit testing is pretty sweet. Put them all together and you get… somewhat unchartered territory. Most .NET Core 2 unit testing principles apply to Durable Functions, but there a few additions. Especially if you are only running Visual Studio Code. This should get you started with: Project Setup Packages & Extensions Dependency Injection and Azure Functions Testing Durable Functions Running Tests Code Coverage Debugging Unit Tests Project Setup .NET unit tests should be in their own directory with their own project, all part of the entire solution. Assuming you already have some code to test in a directory, follow these steps to setup your test directory: src Create a new directory to house unit tests. is probably a good name. test Create a unit test projecta. Move to the test directoryb. Run (Creates a new unit test project using MSTest) You could also pass or .c. Add the main project(s) to this testing project - dotnet new mstest NUnit xUnit dotnet add reference ../src/MyProject.csproj Move back to the root directory and add the unit test project to the solution — dotnet sln add test/MyProject.Tests.csproj Packages & Extensions You’ll want to install the following packages into the project. unit test — For mocking and stubbing. Moq — For cross platform code coverage Coverlet Also recommended are the following VS Code extensions: — A UI for running tests .NET Core Test Explorer — Display covered lines of code right in VS Code. Coverage Gutters Dependency Injection and Azure Functions Because of the nature of Azure Functions, they do not currently support dependency injection (DI). This is an issue as DI is imperative to unit testing in C#. Fortunately, there are ways to implement DI. This is the easiest I've found. static Install package which “contains binding extensions for dependency injection”. this Create a file in the root of the project called with these contents: main Startup.cs 3. This works very similar to a normal .NET Core project, where you can add singleton references in a startup file. 4. Notice that is where you instantiate your abstract functions or interfaces. In the above example, we create an instance of the (for sending emails). We then add it as a singleton and now anytime an is ed, this instance will be passed in. ConfigureServices ISendGridClient ISendGridClient Inject 5. Now unit tests can pass in their own mocks of the class like normal: Note: There is a known where this will throw errors in Azure. There’s a workaround that’s worked for me, per the docs. Put this file in the root of your function app. This will copy over the missing file in Azure. issue Directory.Build.target Testing Durable Functions Durable functions are pretty unique in the C# world. So it should be expected that testing them is pretty unique as well. Any normal function in a Durable Function project can, of course, be tested like normal. For those specific to Durable Functions, follow these steps. See article from Microsoft for more info. this Starters You should append to the parameter. Base DurableOrchestrationClient This class can now be mocked and then passed directly to the starter function. DurableOrchestrationClientBase HTTP Starters HTTP starters have an parameter, which is not easy to mock (at all)! See an example file that does the necessary setup in . HttpRequestMessage TestHelper this Gist Once you have the function, you can use it as follows in this complete example: SetupHttp Orchestrators You should append to the parameter. Base DurableOrchestrationContext This class can now be mocked and then passed directly to the orchestrator function. DurableOrchestrationContextBase Activities Activities can be tested just like any other .NET function. You can just pass the parameter as you normally would, despite the decorator ActivityTrigger You can simply pass the model in directly as normal. If you happen to be using instead of a model directly, like this: MyClass DurableActivityContext There is currently no class that can be mocked. But that is currently in the of Durable Functions. Ensure that is needed, you may be able to just use the model directly. If not, tough 😃. It’s coming! Base dev branch DurableActivityContext Running Tests Once you’re in your testing directory, is the easiest way to run your tests. You can also run and tests will re-run every time you change a file. dotnet test dotnet watch test If you don’t like typing, you can create a task in VS Code. Open up and add the following JSON snippet. Be sure to replace the stuff with the the location of your project. tasks.json MyProject Then you can open the VS Code command palette and run “Tasks: Run Test Task” Code Coverage Code coverage is built into .NET Core, but doesn’t work great cross platform. We’ll use the Coverlet package we installed earlier instead. To run a test with code coverage enabled, you can run . dotnet test /p:CollectCoverage=true The Coverage Gutters extension we installed earlier can show covered lines right in VS Code. Taken from Article on Coverage Gutters Scott Hanselman’s This requires a specific file format. To create the correct file format, run this really short command: dotnet test /p:CollectCoverage=true /p:CoverletOutputFormat=lcov /p:CoverletOutput=./lcov.info This simply tells dotnet to collect coverage and create it in format, which Coverage Gutters requires. Then you can use the command palette and either run "Coverage Gutters: Display Coverage" or "Coverage Gutters: Watch". Watch is cool because it automatically updates as tests are added. Combined with , it's all pretty nice and automated. lcov dotnet watch test Debugging Unit Tests Debugging is fun and necessary. It doesn’t play too well with all of the above fun stuff, but it’s still doable. First, you need a debug command to attach to a process. Open and add a new configuration: launch.json This will let you attach the VS Code debugger to any process. Let’s get VS Code ready for that. Run the command . This tells VS code to get ready to do some debugging. export VSTEST_HOST_DEBUG=1 Run dotnet test Rather than running the tests, it will wait for you to attach to the process: Host debugging is enabled. Please attach debugger to testhost process to continue.Process Id: 60143, Name: dotnet Run your command from the debug tab. Pick the process ID that was shown earlier ( in this example). .NET Core Attach 60143 Almost there. All of this gets you connected, but not quite into your tests yet. Over in the “Call Stack” tab, you should see something that says “<No Name> Paused On Breakpoint” Click “Paused on Breakpoint” now you can hit Continue in the debugger, and you should be taken to the first breakpoint that you set! When you figure out your problem, you can run to go back to normal. export VSTEST_HOST_DEBUG=0 Conclusion That’s it! Hopefully you found this helpful. There’s a bit to it, but with a little bit of setup you can do just about anything you’d want to do in VS Code to unit test Durable Functions.

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