How do Install Microsoft Fakes (Unit Test Isolation) on VS 2013 Professional edition

Question

I want to start writing unit test cases using the Microsoft Fakes framework in Visual Studio 2013 Professional.

Please advise on how I can achieve this.

score 19 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 06 '14 at 11:42

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Fakes is only available with VS Ultimate and Premium. There is no installer that will allow you add the fakes functionality to VSPro

answered Mar 06 '14 at 11:42

allen

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I have used MOQ, RhinoMocks, TypeMock Isolator, and Fakes. I believe Fakes and TypeMock Isolator are the only mocking frameworks that allow "Detours" where a dependency in the code-under-test in unavoidable. But I find 99.9% of the time any other mocking framework will suffice. As a result of MS restricting use of 'Fakes' with the most expensive version of VS has caused me to become proficient in RhinoMocks, and now I prefer it over MS Fakes. The strategy of including a mocking framework with the most expensive VS version is likely to bite back in the long run. – barrypicker Jul 06 '15 at 17:48

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 24 '16 at 02:53

Although Fakes is only available to VS Ultimate/Enterprise users, its predecessor, Moles, is available for free.

They're largely the same, except Fakes uses a different naming scheme, and plays slightly better with non-MSTest testing frameworks.

There is also an open-source alternative named Prig which I know nothing about.

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