Monthly Archives: November 2014

Creating Automated Integration Tests for a DocumentDB Repository

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You can unit test all your layers, but when you get to the repository it becomes an exercise in mocking that provides little real benefit. That’s why we have to give up on the unit test idea for repositories and embrace integration tests. There’s nothing wrong with integration tests, as I explained a while back. So let’s review the criteria of effective automated tests and see if this is worth while.

  1. Automated – Yes, my tests will be standard NUnit tests that can be run just about anywhere by just about any automated process. Continue reading →

Refactoring My Repository Methods to be Asynchronous

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Now I’ve written a DocumentDB based repository for Equipment data in DungeonMart, but I didn’t try to make it perfect, I just tried to make it work. Here it is, if you’re catching up: Part 1 and Part 2.

My next step in getting it closer to perfect is to make all the methods aynchronous. Face it, we’re going out to the cloud to get or write data and we shouldn’t make the whole service wait while that happens. DocumentDB gives you Async methods at least for writing, and we can figure out how to make the read methods async. If we were in Entity Framework, we would already have async methods for both reading and writing.
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