Jason,
Actually, there are more scenarios around in memory queues, including
running in a desktop app, etc.
So yes, I think so.
>From my point of view, testing the transport is not a task that you need to
do, but integration with the bus is.

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Jason Meckley <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> I have unit tests which reference the service bus and they are easy
> enough to test by mocking the service bus. However I don't have any
> integration tests ensuring that published messages are consumed
> correctly. I use manual testing for that. the system is simple enough
> that the number of messages and there routing is easy to track, albeit
> grunt work. I can't image this working on a larger scale where
> messaging is the backbone of the system.
>
> What options are available for testing the entire/majority message
> workflow? Obviously one option is to use RQ with RSB along with the
> disk queues, config files etc. My hesitation with this is the testing
> artifacts. config files, disk queues, etc. would all need to be
> created/deleted between tests.  I'm also not interested in testing the
> persistence/threadding/mechanics of messaging. I just want to ensure
> that sending message X will be consumed by Consumer/Saga<Y>.
>
> It would seem an in-memory queue would be ideal for testing similar to
> SqLite databases for NH query tests. If an in memory queue doesn't
> exist I suppose adding one is as simple as creating a new
> implementation of ITransport?
>
> would an in-memory queue make sense for testing, or is this defeating
> the point of testing the message processing?
> >
>

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