Introducing MoqContrib Auto-mocking Container

The past couple weeks I have been working on an auto-mocking inversion of control container for Moq Contrib. The first results are almost ready to release in the form of an Alpha. The first container to be released will be Castle.Windsor, later we will release an Autofac container.

You will be interested in this project if you use an IoC container in conjunction with unit tests and mocking (with Moq). You probably find yourself writing setups like:

[SetUp]
public void Given()
{
 _service = Mock<IService>();
 Container.Register(For<IService>().Instance(service.Object));
}

[Test]
public void I_did_something() 
{
 var test = new TestThingy();
 test.DoSomething();
 
 _service.Verify(x => x.Something(), Times.Once();
}

When you use an auto-mocking container, the container will create mocks at resolve-time if it doesn't already have a component for it. So in the above example, the setup would drop out completely as there wouldn't be any need to explicitly create and register the mock:

[Test]
public void I_did_something() 
{
 var test = new TestThingy();
 test.DoSomething();
 
 _service.Verify(x => x.Something(), Times.Once();
}

We will release an alpha version of the Castle.Windsor auto-mocking container later this week. Soon after we will add an Autofac container and start working towards a regular release schedule. If you are interested, visit the site at codeplex and give feedback through the discussion groups.

Happy Mocking!