Creating recursive tree with AutoFixture

Question

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

Answer 1

Creating A with an empty list of Bs

It's easy to create an instance of A with an empty list of Bs:

var fixture = new Fixture();
fixture.Inject(Enumerable.Empty());

var a = fixture.Create();

Creating a small tree

It's much more difficult to create a small tree, but it's possible. You're already on track with your thinking about RecursionGuard. In order to verify if this could work, I copied most of the code from RecursionGuard and created this DepthRecursionGuard as a proof of concept:

public class DepthRecursionGuard : ISpecimenBuilderNode
{
    private readonly ISpecimenBuilder builder;
    private readonly Stack