Using Application Insights with Unit Tests?

Question

I have an MVC web app, and I\'m using Simple Injector for DI. Almost all my code is covered by unit tests. However, now that I\'ve added some telemetry calls in some contr

Answer 1

I had a lot of success with using Josh Rostad's article for writing my mock TelemetryChannel and injecting it into my tests. Here's the mock object:

public class MockTelemetryChannel : ITelemetryChannel
{
    public ConcurrentBag SentTelemtries = new ConcurrentBag();
    public bool IsFlushed { get; private set; }
    public bool? DeveloperMode { get; set; }
    public string EndpointAddress { get; set; }

    public void Send(ITelemetry item)
    {
        this.SentTelemtries.Add(item);
    }

    public void Flush()
    {
        this.IsFlushed = true;
    }

    public void Dispose()
    {

    }
}    

And then in my tests, a local method to spin-up the mock:

private TelemetryClient InitializeMockTelemetryChannel()
{
    // Application Insights TelemetryClient doesn't have an interface (and is sealed)
    // Spin -up our own homebrew mock object
    MockTelemetryChannel mockTelemetryChannel = new MockTelemetryChannel();
    TelemetryConfiguration mockTelemetryConfig = new TelemetryConfiguration
    {
        TelemetryChannel = mockTelemetryChannel,
        InstrumentationKey = Guid.NewGuid().ToString(),
    };

    TelemetryClient mockTelemetryClient = new TelemetryClient(mockTelemetryConfig);
    return mockTelemetryClient;
}

Finally, run the tests!

[TestMethod]
public void TestWidgetDoSomething()
{            
    //arrange
    TelemetryClient mockTelemetryClient = this.InitializeMockTelemetryChannel();
    MyWidget widget = new MyWidget(mockTelemetryClient);

    //act
    var result = widget.DoSomething();

    //assert
    Assert.IsTrue(result != null);
    Assert.IsTrue(result.IsSuccess);
}