thread

Hi
Can you please be more specific?
What are you trying to do?

the thread is in the function that i want to test, for eg:

private Thread t1;

public void ProcThread(){}

public void StartThread()
{
... ... .. ..............
.........................
.........................
tl = nre Thread(new ThreadStart(ProcThread));
tl.Start();
}

Hi

Yes there is a way
You can see a detailed explanation here

Hihi,

i have read the explaination, so it is no need to mock thread and expect call - start() if i want to test startThread()?

may i know what is MyThreadAction.StartAsyncAction() abt? thanks

MyThreadAction.StartAsyncAction is just some code that starts an asynchronous action.
This can be done in multiple ways in .NET

1. Start an new Thread.
2. Start a Thread from the ThreadPool
3. Use the delegate BeginInvoke

The point is that the method returns immediately and we need to wait for some action to finish before we can assert if our test fails or not.

:arrow: one way to do it is by calling Process.Sleep();
but this might not work (if the sleep it too short) or might create longer tests then required (if the sleep is too long).

:arrow: Another is to call Thread.Join
but we might be testing code that the thread doesn't exit.

:idea: Using TypeMock it is quite simple. we mock a method that when called we will know that we are ready to assert out test.
This method is normally part of our test (for example test that the result passed is the correct result).
Now we use the VerifyWithTimeout and our test will run at the optimal time but will still fail if the we don't return in time.

how can we make sure the test return in time? if not return in time, will get TypeMock.VerifyException :
TypeMock Verification: Operation timeout, Not all expectations where called: