Entity Framework unit testing

How to unit test a repository pattern that uses Entity Framework?

You can replace connection to your database with in-memory DB, such as Effort. Then you can test your repository logic. In more details can be found ...here

Unit Testing and Entity Framework

I am very new to EF, I want to know what is the best way of creating EF with SQL Server database. After that I want to test CRUD operations. Is EF implemented in a TDD way, and I am confused by these repository patterns, mock context, fake pattern etc.. ...CRUD operations in EF, what all things would be tested? (...DbContext..., ...SaveChanges()...

How to unit test async methods of Entity Framework with a multiple clauses

I'm trying to unit test an async method in EF 6.0.2 with Moq 4.0.10827 and I'm getting blocked in what appears to be a casting issue....The following works fine:...public async Task<List<Testimonial>> GetByEventIdAsync(int eventId) { var query = from t in _context.Testimonials orderby t.Ordinal select t; var ...

How are people unit testing with Entity Framework 6, should you bother?

Effort Experience Feedback here...After a lot of reading I have been using ...Effort... in my tests: during the tests the Context is built by a factory that returns a in memory version, which lets me test against a blank slate each time. Outside of the tests, the factory is resolved to one that returns the whole Context....However i have a feeling ...

unit testing with effort for entity framework 6 with computed values

Using effort EF6 with code first does not populate computed values. I have a datetime field (FechaCreacion) that is computed. How can I emulate it in Effort, so It is populated with DateTime.Now after savingChanges() ?...This post ...Using Effort (EF Testing Tool) with Computed Column... is DB First instead of Code First as my example, but seems un...

How to mock or substitute Entity Framework context in unit test?

I would like to unit test a business logic component in one of my projects....BL:...public class CommunicationService { IContext context; public CommunicationService() { var kernel = new StandardKernel(new NinjectConfig()); context = kernel.Get<IContext>(); } // This creates a file public void SomeMethodTha...

ASP Boilerplate problems using Effort in unit testing with EFProf (Entity Framework Profiler)

Having issues using EFProf (...http://www.hibernatingrhinos.com/products/EFProf...) with ASP Boilerplate (...http://www.aspnetboilerplate.com/...). ...For unit testing, ASP Boilerplate uses Effort (...https://github.com/tamasflamich/effort...) for mocking the database in-memory....If I run the unit tests without adding the reference to EFProf, the...

How do I go about unit testing with Entity Framework and Moq?

I'm new to Moq, and wanting to use it like a backing store for data - but without touching the live database....My setup is as follows:...A UnitOfWork contains all repositories, and is used for data access throughout the application....A Repository represents a direct hook into a DbSet, provided by a DbContext....A DbContext contains all DbSets....

Unit Testing Z Entity Framework Plus Extensions

When using Z.EntityFramework.Plus extensions, I cannot find a way to mock/substitute what the context returns when any of the plus extensions, not just Future(), are being used. Everything I try throws a NullReferenceException within the z extensions future library. ...Repository Example:...public Task<DocumentDomain> GetDocuments(int id) { var f...

UnintentionalCodeFirstException | Entity Framework Unit Testing with Effort.Ef6 using Database First

The situation...I want to enable unit testing of my ...DbContext... based on entity framework 6. I have created my ...DbContext... and my models with the database first approach and now have an ....edmx... designer file....The problem...My automatically created ...DbContext... does override the ...DbContext.OnModelCreating... method like this:...pr...