Unit Testing Kentico Xperience 13 With Xunit

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I don't write much and I do not definitely do blogs. But I do write code. And I write tests for code. So when .Net Core became a development model for Kentico Xperience 13, it became a perfect time to have start full unit tests on our code.

I also decided that I will create a series of articles on unit testing Kentico Xperience projects as most of the articles I have looked at covered mostly the basics not an in-depth look of how to fully cover a project with tests.

I reached out to Kentico and shared with them my plan to do the unit testing article series using the MedioClinic Sample Site . The sample project is featured in the Kentico Xperience Training modules. Fortunately, they concurred and here we are.

What to expect from this series? Well, I will be starting with simple unit tests, all the way to having at least 80% code coverage for the whole project. Of course, I will also share the tools used and full source code.

Let's start with the tools first.

Azure DevOps - Project management, source control and CI/CD:
Visual Studio 2022  - IDE
SonarCloud  - Static Code Analysis, ...
... Code Coverage
xUnit  - Testing framework/platform instead of NUnit used and supported by the Kentico Xperience Test Libraries.
AutoFac.AutoMock  - Auto mocking library to automatically create mock dependencies for both concrete and mock abstract instances in unit tests
AutoFixture  - for automatically creating test fixtures without hand-coding variables
Also listing below some of the articles specific to unit testing in Kentico
 
Kentico Documentation  - writing automated tests reference
Kentico 12: Design Patterns Part 1 - Writing Testable Code  - a great article and an awesome series of articles by Kentico MVP Sean Wright
Unit Testing Kentico EMS with xUnit  - another great article by Marnix van Valen. He also discussed why xUnit was used instead of NUnit.