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What's new in FakeItEasy 3.0.0?

FakeItEasy is a popular mocking framework for .NET, with an very intuitive and easy-to-use API. For about one year, I’ve been a maintainer of FakeItEasy, along with Adam Ralph and Blair Conrad. It’s been a real pleasure working with them and I had a lot of fun! Today I’m glad to announce that we’re releasing FakeItEasy 3.0.0, which supports .NET Core and introduces a few useful features. Let’s see what’s new!

Automatically inject fakes in test fixture with FakeItEasy

Today I’d like to share a nice feature I discovered recently in FakeItEasy. When you write unit tests for a class that takes dependencies, you typically need to create fake/mock dependencies and manually inject them into the SUT (System Under Test), or use a DI container to register the fake dependencies and construct the SUT. This is a bit tedious, and a few months ago I came up with an auto-mocking Unity extension to make it easier.

Create an auto-mocking container with Unity and FakeItEasy

Unit testing can be tedious sometimes, especially when testing classes that have complex dependencies. Fortunately, some tools make it somewhat easier. I’ve been using FakeItEasy a lot recently; it’s a very easy to use mocking framework for .NET. It has a very lean and simple API based on generics and lambda expressions, and is a real pleasure to work with. It came as a breath of fresh air compared to the old RhinoMocks I had been using before.