Mocking User.Identity in ASP.NET MVC

Question

I need to create Unit Tests for an ASP.NET MVC 2.0 web site. The site uses Windows Authentication.

I\'ve been reading up on the necessity to mock the HTTP context

Answer 1

I don't know for MVC 2.0, but in newer versions you can mock the ControllerContext:

// create mock principal
var mocks = new MockRepository(MockBehavior.Default);
Mock mockPrincipal = mocks.Create();
mockPrincipal.SetupGet(p => p.Identity.Name).Returns(userName);
mockPrincipal.Setup(p => p.IsInRole("User")).Returns(true);

// create mock controller context
var mockContext = new Mock();
mockContext.SetupGet(p => p.HttpContext.User).Returns(mockPrincipal.Object);
mockContext.SetupGet(p => p.HttpContext.Request.IsAuthenticated).Returns(true);

// create controller
var controller = new MvcController() { ControllerContext = mock.Object };

see also How to unit-test an MVC controller action which depends on authentification in c#?