Mocking commands about tik4net

[danikf]

Hi,
reasons for this approach:

• Extensibility (everybody is able to create his own connection extension - e.q. extension in EthernetMonitorclass.
• I believe that interaction with mikrotik (or database) should be tested by integration tests, not unitests. (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6766478/unit-testing-dbcontext/6768712#6768712)
• I believe that unit-testing controlers is not goog idea (no real logic inside) and loading/saving code is very similar.

How to test your code (just brainstorming):

• Use some kind of mikrotik facade abstraction (like DAO/Service layer) and mock this facade (e.q. LoadAllEthBasedInterfaces(), LoadAllActiveUsers(), DisableMikrotikUserByName(name)). It also helps with CQS. This facade itself is controller (from my perspective) and should not be unit-tested.
• Mock whole ITikConnection and ITikCommand (pretend mikrotik communication) - could be very hard work

BTW: I have plan to create some kind of mikrotikwrapper class (wraps connection) with easy to use API (like mikrotik.Users.Create(name, ...); and I will face the same problem there - so - may be, I will recognize I am wrong :-)

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