docs: add actor unit testing guide - #1861
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@wynx1123 Thank you for putting this together. Could you please sign your commits so we can accept this? |
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@wynx1123 Having looked through this, I think it might be a better option to put into the Dapr .NET SDK documentation repository rather than in this one so there's better visibility. There isn't much documentation persisted in this repository outside of the examples. If you can ping me when you have something in place over in dapr/docs, I'd be happy to review it there! |
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Thanks for the guidance, @WhitWaldo! I'll sign the commit here and move the documentation over to |
Add docs/actor-unit-testing.md covering: - Actor lifecycle overview and testable API surface - Unit testing actors in isolation with ActorHost - Mocking StateManager with constructor injection and Moq - Mocking IActorProxyFactory for cross-actor call tests - Timer and reminder registration testing - Full BankActor test suite example - Integration testing with Dapr sidecar - Key principles: dependency injection, test isolation, fast hosts Closes dapr#1531 Signed-off-by: wynx1123 <wynx1123@users.noreply.github.com>
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DCO signed and documentation moved to dapr/docs — PR is at dapr/docs#5230 @WhitWaldo |
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Summary
Adds a comprehensive Actor Unit Testing Guide to help developers test Dapr Actors effectively, as requested in #1531.
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The guide covers these practical patterns:
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Closes #1531