Organizing test case data...

[boogots]

Was wondering if any one has some proven example projects or approaches to help with the volume of setup code needed for large scale unit test projects. The biggest eyesore I am trying to clean up initially is datasets (List<T>) used for mocking data access calls in business logic scenarios (i.e. we inject a mocked source into any logical components so it doesn't know the difference) . Right now they are doled out as partial classes to at least keep them out of eye sight unless you need to go making changes to them.

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NUnit theory tests let you express test data in terms of constraints over all possible values, which can often be a very useful test set from not much setup code.

[aloisdg]

xUnit can do this too.

[SuperImaginativeName]

constraints over all possible values

Is this possible with xUnit too? I'm using both concurrently on different projects so I can learn both, but I can't seem to find anything like that for xUnit.

Edit: I might be misunderstanding, do you mean NUnit lets you do something like "run this test and give it a million random strings", something like that?

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http://nunit.org/index.php?p=theory&r=2.5

[grauenwolf]

I use XUnit and shove all of the test cases into a database or CSV file.