Moq.Sequences

Allows you to enforce that methods or property accessors are called in a specific sequence.

Features

• Supports method invocations, property setters and getters.
• Allows you to specify the number of times a specific call should be expected.
• Provides loops which allow you to group calls into a recurring group.
• Allows you to specify the the number of times a loop should be expected.
• Calls that are expected to be called in sequence can be inter-mixed with calls that are expected in any order.
• Multi-threaded support, as well as support for Task-based concurrency and async / await.

To Use

Add a reference to the NuGet package Moq.Sequences to your .NET project.

Sequences

You create a Sequence as an envelope for both the expectations and the corresponding mock execution.

Sequences are created by calling Sequence.Create().

During mock execution, any violation of sequencing will throw a SequenceException immediately. When the Sequence is disposed any sequencing expectations that were not fulfilled will cause a SequenceException to be thrown.

Sequences cannot be nested. An attempt to create more than one will throw a SequenceUsageException.

Steps

To specify that a call is expected, append .InSequence() to the mock.Setup() method. You can optionally include the number of times the call is expected - the default is once. To enforce a simple sequence do the following:

// using Moq.Sequences;

using (Sequence.Create())
{
    mock.Setup(_ => _.Method1()).InSequence();
    mock.Setup(_ => _.Method2()).InSequence(Times.AtMostOnce());
    …
    // Logic that triggers the above method calls should be done here.
    …
}

Note that the order expected is the order in which the calls to .Setup() execute.

Loops

You can specify that a group of calls should be done in sequence multiple times. An example could be a test that expects a resource to be opened, read and then closed where these operations should always be done in sequence the same number of times.

You create a Loop by calling Sequence.Loop() where any number of iterations is allowed, or Sequence.Loop(Times) if you want to restrict the number of times the loop executes.

// using Moq.Sequences;

using (Sequence.Create())
{
    …
    using (Sequence.Loop(Times.Exactly(3)))
    {
        mock.Setup(_ => _.Method1()).InSequence();
        mock.Setup(_ => _.Method2()).InSequence();
    }
    …
    // Logic that triggers the above method calls should be done here.
    …
}

Support for Task-based concurrency and async / await

This library was originally designed with explicit multi-threading in mind. By default, the currently active Sequence is tied to (and only accessible on) the specific thread that created it. Unfortunately, this behaviour does not play well together with Task-based concurrency.

You can change Moq.Sequences' behavior to a mode that is compatible with Task-based concurrency and async / await by doing the following before any of your tests execute:

Sequence.ContextMode = SequenceContextMode.Async;

To Build

Both the source code and the NuGet package can be built with Visual Studio 2017 (Community Edition or better).