RE: How do I unit test a Dispose method ?

Gishu,

Could you inject a mocked SecureString?
Then you can check if the SecureString.Dispose is called.
Seems like a good place to use a mock as it's a "tell" pattern.

John D.

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gishu Pillai
Sent: 23 January 2014 08:26
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Subject: [TDD] How do I unit test a Dispose method ?




The question is a bit .Net specific.
Assuming the simple case, where I have a type which wraps a internal IDisposable member.
class Connection
{
   private SecureString password;
}
SecureString is Disposable. That mandates that Connection should have a Dispose method, which should dispose its members.
Options:
* To know whether the internal member has been disposed, I'd have to expose it (so that the unit test can see it). Doesn't feel right to me.
* The other hack would be to promote it from private to internal + use the InternalVisibleTo path to access it.
Does anyone have something better ?
Gishu