Active Record and Fake In Memory Repositories in Test Driven Development

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0800

Introduction

Here is a simple example of how to use fake repositories in test driven development.

By using Fake Repositories generated from a binary file we are able to quickly use ‘real data’ in all our tests.

It is a Visual Studio 2008 solution and uses the Castle project’s Active Record as an ORM.

Step 1 – Our Core Model

The model will consist of 3 classes

- SuperHero e.g. Superman
- SupeHeroId
- RealName
- SuperHeroName
- Power e.g. Flight
- PowerId
- PowerName
- SuperHeroPower e.g. Superman’s flight
- SuperHeroPowerId
- Comments (e.g. Faster than a speeding bullet)

Each of our classes implements an Interface called IIdRetriever

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Active Record and Fake In Memory Repositories in Test Driven Development

Introduction

Step 1 – Our Core Model