How do I make a mockup of System.Net.Mail MailMessage?

Question

So I have some SMTP stuff in my code and I am trying to unit test that method.

So I been trying to Mockup MailMessage but it never seems to work. I think none of the met

Answer 1

Why mock the MailMessage? The SmtpClient receives MailMessages and sends them out; that's the class I'd want to wrap for testing purposes. So, if you're writing some type of system that places Orders, if you're trying to test that your OrderService always emails when an order is placed, you'd have a class similar to the following:

class OrderService : IOrderSerivce 
{
    private IEmailService _mailer;
    public OrderService(IEmailService mailSvc) 
    {
        this. _mailer = mailSvc;
    }

    public void SubmitOrder(Order order) 
    {
        // other order-related code here

        System.Net.Mail.MailMessage confirmationEmail = ... // create the confirmation email
        _mailer.SendEmail(confirmationEmail);
    } 

}

With the default implementation of IEmailService wrapping SmtpClient:

This way, when you go to write your unit test, you test the behavior of the code that uses the SmtpClient/EmailMessage classes, not the behavior of the SmtpClient/EmailMessage classes themselves:

public Class When_an_order_is_placed
{
    [Setup]
    public void TestSetup() {
        Order o = CreateTestOrder();
        mockedEmailService = CreateTestEmailService(); // this is what you want to mock
        IOrderService orderService = CreateTestOrderService(mockedEmailService);
        orderService.SubmitOrder(o);
    } 

    [Test]
    public void A_confirmation_email_should_be_sent() {
        Assert.IsTrue(mockedEmailService.SentMailMessage != null);
    }


    [Test]
    public void The_email_should_go_to_the_customer() {
        Assert.IsTrue(mockedEmailService.SentMailMessage.To.Contains("test@hotmail.com"));
    }

}

Edit: to address your comments below, you'd want two separate implementations of EmailService – only one would use SmtpClient, which you'd use in your application code:

class EmailService : IEmailService {
    private SmtpClient client;

    public EmailService() {
        client = new SmtpClient();
        object settings = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SMTP"];
        // assign settings to SmtpClient, and set any other behavior you 
        // from SmtpClient in your application, such as ssl, host, credentials, 
        // delivery method, etc
    }

    public void SendEmail(MailMessage message) {
        client.Send(message);
    }

}

Your mocked/faked email service (you don't need a mocking framework for this, but it helps) wouldn't touch SmtpClient or SmtpSettings; it'd only record the fact that, at some point, an email was passed to it via SendEmail. You can then use this to test whether or not SendEmail was called, and with which parameters:

class MockEmailService : IEmailService {
    private EmailMessage sentMessage;;

    public SentMailMessage { get { return sentMessage; } }

    public void SendEmail(MailMessage message) {
        sentMessage = message;
    }

}

The actual testing of whether or not the email was sent to the SMTP Server and delivered should fall outside the bounds of your unit testing. You need to know whether this works, and you can set up a second set of tests to specifically test this (typically called Integration Tests), but these are distinct tests separate from the code that tests the core behavior of your application.