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

To mock WindowsIdentity you can do the following:

var mockedPrincipal = new Mock(WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent());

mockedPrincipal.SetupGet(x => x.Identity.IsAuthenticated).Returns(true);
mockedPrincipal.SetupGet(x => x.Identity.Name).Returns("Domain\\User1");
mockedPrincipal.Setup(x => x.IsInRole("Domain\\Group1")).Returns(true);
mockedPrincipal.Setup(x => x.IsInRole("Domain\\Group2")).Returns(false);

then use mockedPrincipal.Object to get the actual WindowsIdentity