Unit Testing Internal methods.

Today I did some pair programming with Richard Banks from Readify.

When I explained to him that I use the IDE to generate these property accessors that use reflection to test internal and private methods he showed me a nicer way around it:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.runtime.compilerservices.internalsvisibletoattribute.aspx

Basically all I had to do was [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("Assembly Name")] to the assembly.cs file and make sure that the “Assembly Name” was pointing to the unit tests assembly name.

This worked perfectly! Thanks Richard!

P.S I should state the obvious note that this approach doesn’t work for private methods