I don't agree with the "you should only be interested in testing the external interface" philosophy. It's a bit like saying that a car repair shop should only have tests to see if the wheels turn. Yes, ultimately I'm interested in the external behavior but I like my own, private, internal tests to be a bit more specific and to the point. Yes, if I refactor, I may have to change some of the tests, but unless it's a massive refactor, I'll only have to change a few and the fact that the other (unchanged) internal tests still work is a great indicator that the refactoring has been successful.

You can try to cover all internal cases using only the public interface and theoretically it's possible to test every internal method (or at least every one that matters) entirely by using the public interface but you may have to end up standing on your head to achieve this and the connection between the test cases being run through the public interface and the internal portion of the solution they're designed to test may be difficult or impossible to discern. Having pointed, individual tests that guarantee that the internal machinery is working properly is well worth the minor test changes that come about with refactoring - at least that's been my experience. If you have to make huge changes to your tests for every refactoring, then maybe this doesn't make sense, but in that case, maybe you ought to rethink your design entirely. A good design should be flexible enough to allow for most changes without massive redesigns.

如果你正在使用。net，你应该使用InternalsVisibleToAttribute。

这里有一篇关于私有方法单元测试的好文章。但是我不知道哪个更好，是让你的应用程序专门为测试而设计(就像只为测试而创建测试)还是使用反射来测试。 我敢肯定大多数人都会选择第二种方式。

这里有一个例子，首先是方法签名:

private string[] SplitInternal()
{
    return Regex.Matches(Format, @"([^/\[\]]|\[[^]]*\])+")
                        .Cast<Match>()
                        .Select(m => m.Value)
                        .Where(s => !string.IsNullOrEmpty(s))
                        .ToArray();
}

下面是测试:

/// <summary>
///A test for SplitInternal
///</summary>
[TestMethod()]
[DeploymentItem("Git XmlLib vs2008.dll")]
public void SplitInternalTest()
{
    string path = "pair[path/to/@Key={0}]/Items/Item[Name={1}]/Date";
    object[] values = new object[] { 2, "Martin" };
    XPathString xp = new XPathString(path, values);

    PrivateObject param0 = new PrivateObject(xp);
    XPathString_Accessor target = new XPathString_Accessor(param0);
    string[] expected = new string[] {
        "pair[path/to/@Key={0}]",
        "Items",
        "Item[Name={1}]",
        "Date"
    };
    string[] actual;
    actual = target.SplitInternal();
    CollectionAssert.AreEqual(expected, actual);
}

您可以在Visual studio 2008中为私有方法生成测试方法。当您为私有方法创建单元测试时，test References文件夹将添加到测试项目中，访问器将添加到该文件夹中。存取器也在单元测试方法的逻辑中被引用。这个访问器允许单元测试调用正在测试的代码中的私有方法。 详情请看

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb385974.aspx

有时，测试私有声明是很好的。 基本上，编译器只有一个公共方法:Compile(string outputFileName, params string[] sourceSFileNames)。我相信您可以理解，如果不测试每个“隐藏”声明，就很难测试这样的方法!

这就是为什么我们创建了Visual t#:来简化测试。它是一个免费的。net编程语言(兼容c# v2.0)。

我们增加了‘。——“操作符。它就像'。操作符，除了您还可以从测试中访问任何隐藏的声明，而无需更改已测试项目中的任何内容。

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