Writing robust integration tests in .NET with WireMock.NET

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Hello everybody I'm Nick and in this video I will show you how you can step your integration testing (or even acceptance testing) up using WireMock.NET. Third party APIs are a crucial part of a lot of applications and mocking them during integration testing can be really tricky. WireMock.NET is a library that can make your live so much easier by allowing your to cleanly create a mock version of the third party API that you're integrating with.
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[@deathmachine808]

You’ve got a really solid channel man. One day when I can actually stop working long enough to learn something else I’m going to be deep diving.

[@kaiserbergin]

Nice work. Been using wiremock for some time, and I'm glad to see it getting some love on your channel. I started pointing my devs to your channel as you're constantly posting useful content and do a good job at keeping on top of current features and libs. Good work, man. Thanks.

[@user-tp8xp1hj8e]

me2, the company i work in also created a custom wrap over it, @Nick consider to also cover the topic of PACT testing

[@darianferrer]

Great demo Nick! I've been using it for a couple of years and when building micro-services with multiple externals APIs it's very helpful. One thing that maybe you could expand on this topic is how to do recordings and playbacks, I've never tried that because its not that hard to setup manual requests/responses, but maybe you have experience on this.

[@chamiz]

Good work!. Thanks Nick

[@dimamartyshchenko2265]

Really nice ! Thanks for the video

[@Mrnik123s]

Nice. Do I need to dispose of wiremock server after use ?

[@vibes992000]

I would be much happier if you would have shown a more real life case scenario for wiremock i.e writing request /endpoints and response contracts pair in a separate external text file rather than building them from precompiled fluent syntax. Still a good video to get started and see internal workings of wiremock web service espeically its configuration via fixtures

[@vespuxi2516]

Beautiful

[@ofiry]

Great video Nick, can u explain why this is better then mocking the httpclient

[@aaronkoller8811]

Wire mock does look like a great tool. Maybe I am missing something here, why not just use the Microsoft TestServer where in the client you can use Moq to mock any external dependencies/responses?

[@StefHeyenrath]

Correct, in the example code there is an interface (Refit) to connect to GitHub. So in this case, it was also possible to completely stub this using Mock. However in case the client, which connects to a 3rd party system, cannot be mocked, or if you want to run a more integration-test like test, then WireMock.Net can be used to mock the request with certain responses from that 3rd Party system. Also note that you can also use response templating, which enables you to create not just static responses but also dynamic response based on properties from the request.

[@amazotv8382]

Hi Nick, can this be used with mstest framework and not xunit?

[@clearlyunwell]

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