March 26, 2022
Reading Reference Data in .NET Unit Tests
When I'm unit testing in .NET many times I need a very large string or set of data to provide as input to a test case or as a final insertion. I like to use XUnit, but there aren't a lot of clear options to do this in any unit testing framework. One way to do this is to just store the large amount of data in a file somewhere near the test it's self.