BizTalk Testing and Mocks

In an earlier article , I had briefly mentioned that some folk had used mocks with Biztalk, notably to test pipeline components. Since I didnt have the bookmarks at hand then I didn’t provide the links, but I have since found the links again so here they are (and I can also now use this as a note to self if I want to refer to them again or expand on any of the material they have written).

• Testing Pipeline Components – The Pipeline Testing Library – Nick Heppleston
• Unit Testing Pipeline components with Mocks - Rido
• BizTalk Testing Series – Testing Pipeline Components – Mike Stephenson
• TDD and BizTalk Orchestration Expression Code – Matt Podwysocki
• Rhino Mocks and custom BizTalk code revisited   – Matt Podwysocki
• Biztalk TDD – Pipeline Components - Arun Gopalam

While the  blog posts pointing to the Pipeline Testing Library are useful, if you want to go straight to the source, check out the WIKI page that Tomas has set up on GitHub. That page has more samples on how to use the API.

I’m going to have a play around with MoQ and pipeline components in the next couple of days . I think MoQ’s approach is a bit more elegant than Rhino (particularly, the absence of record and replay). I’m also going to link into Tomas’s excellent pipeline testing library from BizUnitExtensions. This has been a long overdue item on my roadmap.

UPDATE: Bram Veldhoen has already done some work on linking the Pipeline Testing Library into BizUnit and has very graciously contributed his code to be put into BizUnitExtensions so that will be released soon with Extensions 3.0.

Enjoy the links and if you find others of a similar ilk that are also useful feel free to put them in the feedback section here and I will update the post.