autofixture

I'm trying to overcome a scenario in which a class has a string constructor parameter which cannot be satisfied by any old string generated by Autofixture (the Guid-y looking value). Before you're tempted to answer simply with a link to Mark Seemann's Ploeh blog entry on Convention-based Customizations , let me say that I've been referencing it and other blog entries of his for this test, which I can't get to pass. When I step through in debug, I can see that at some point the constructor parameter is passed in with the valid value, but the test still fails with the Guid-y Color value. I think

We have written a test which looks like the following. This test requires that we have created en Equal -overload for the CodeTableItem -class: ICollection<CodeTableItem> expectedValutaList = new List<CodeTableItem>(); expectedValutaList.Add(new CodeTableItem("DKK", "DKK")); expectedValutaList.Add(new CodeTableItem("EUR", "EUR")); RepoDac target = new RepoDac(); var actual = target.GetValutaKd(); CollectionAssert.AreEqual(expectedValutaList.ToList(),actual.ToList()); The test works fine, but has the unfortunate dependency to the Equality -function, meaning if I extend the CodeTableItem -class

I'm using AutoFixture to generate data for a structure involving a parent object and complex child objects, like this: public class Parent { public int Id { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public Child[] Children { get; set; } } public class Child { public string Name { get; set; } public int ParentId { get; set; } } Is there a way to automatically set the property ParentId of the generated Child object to the id assigned to the parent? Right now my solution looks like this, which isn't very pretty: var parent = fixture.Build<Parent>().Without(p => p.Children).CreateAnonymous();

Is there some easy way in Autofixture to new-up an object using it's constructor, but hard-code/specify the value to use for a single parameter in the constructor? I see that this can be done with properties, using something like: fixture.Build<MyObj>().With(x=x.Val,"hard coded value").Create() From the discussion about this question in the comments: Often I want to new-up an object, but I'm only concerned about a single parameter. Maybe the parameter value drives a calculation or transform of some sort. I want the value itself to be random, but the test needs to know what random value was

I have just started using AutoFixture and have this semi-complex data structure that I would like to create some specimen for. In the tests I am working with I don't care too much about content of the data structure. I just want reasonable default values. Part of this data structure is a recursive tree. More specific, one class holds a collection of some other class that contains a list of children of itself. Something akin to: public class A { private IEnumerable<B> bNodes; public A(IEnumerable<B> bNodes) { this.bNodes = bNodes; } } public class B { private IEnumerable<B> children; public B