hey out there,

we're in the process of getting a project unit tested... we're getting there, the learning curve is steep but it's beginning to make a bit of sense!

what we've done so far:

1. got the 'Umbraco.Tests.dll' and config files dropped in and working
2. worked out how to test the 'GetPropertyValue
3. got a basic test running!
4. found some useful stuff online re unit testing http://justthisguy.co.uk/unit-testing-umbraco/ http://web-matters.blogspot.it/2014/03/unit-testing-umbraco-ipublishedcontent.html http://www.bomboca.co.uk/umbraco-cms/unit-testing-umbraco/

this was working fine with basic testing, however it's gone to pot the moment we've got a class/interface that's using the 'UmbracoHelper' which of course needs the good old 'UmbracoContext'.

on the advice of many blog posts we've used this to get the context:

private UmbracoContext GetUmbracoContext()
{
    var routingContext = GetRoutingContext("/");
    return routingContext.UmbracoContext;
}

but when we run our tests, we get this:

Test method Site.Tests.UmbracoTests.TestMethod1 threw exception: 
System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: applicationContext
at Umbraco.Web.PublishedCache.XmlPublishedCache.PublishedMediaCache..ctor(ApplicationContext applicationContext)
at Umbraco.Tests.TestHelpers.BaseDatabaseFactoryTest.GetUmbracoContext(String url, Int32 templateId, RouteData routeData, Boolean setSingleton)
at Umbraco.Tests.TestHelpers.BaseRoutingTest.GetRoutingContext(String url, Int32 templateId, RouteData routeData, Boolean setUmbracoContextCurrent)
at Umbraco.Tests.TestHelpers.BaseRoutingTest.GetRoutingContext(String url, RouteData routeData)
at Site.Tests.UmbracoTests.GetUmbracoContext() in UmbracoTests.cs: line 28
at Site.Tests.UmbracoTests.TestMethod1() in UmbracoTests.cs: line 55

which has left us a bit stumped!

has anyone hit this before or has a better solution to creating the 'UmbracoContext'?

cheers,

jake