Mocking an NHibernate ISession with Moq

Question

I am starting a new project with NHibernate, ASP.NET MVC 2.0 and StructureMap and using NUnit and Moq for testing. For each of my controllers I have a single public construc

Answer 1

Rather than mocking the Session, one might consider setting up a different Configuration for unit-tests. This unit-testing Configuration uses a fast, in-process database like SQLite or Firebird. In the fixture setup, you create a new test database completely from scratch, run the scripts to set up the tables, and create a set of initial records. In the per-test setup, you open a transaction and in the post-test teardown, you rollback the transaction to restore the database to its previous state. In a sense, you are not mocking the Session, because that gets tricky, but you are mocking the actual database.