Installation

The quick version

Add the Mocklis nuget package to your test project.

This can be done with the NuGet browser in Visual Studio: Search for ‘Mocklis’ while on the Browse tab, and you should see the Mocklis packages and be able to add Mocklis to your project.

You’ll need to tick the checkbox that says ‘Include prerelease’ to see the Mocklis.Experimental package.

The slighly longer version

There are two things that you’ll need to get hold of to run Mocklis.

Firstly there is a code generator that builds test double classes from interface definitions. The recommended way is to use a Roslyn Analyzer + Code Fix supplied in the form of the NuGet package Mocklis.MockGenerator. (If you’re building Mocklis from sources - kudos if you do - there is an embryo to a command-line version. This is just the absolute bare minimum needed to load a solution and update all MocklisClasses within.)

Then there is a library of pluggable ‘steps’ which provide bite-sized behaviours to the test doubles, along with some supporting code. This library is spread over a number of assemblies, most notably Mocklis.Core which contains the minimum amount of code required to build the test doubles, and Mocklis which you use in your tests to add behaviour. There’s also Mocklis.Experimental for steps whose design is still under development (read: steps that simply haven’t been axed yet…) and Mocklis.Serilog2 which contains a logging provider for Serilog 2.x.

Note that Mocklis.Experimental is going to stay a perpetual 0.x pre-release, so that it can have breaking changes without violating the semantic versioning rules.