Advice on Unit testing a Windows Forms application

The key to Unit Testing graphical applications is to make sure that all most all of the business logic is in a separate class and not in the code behind.

Design patterns like Model View Presenter and Model View Controller can help when designing such a system.

To give an example:

public partial class Form1 : Form, IMyView
{
    MyPresenter Presenter;
    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        Presenter = new MyPresenter(this);
    }

    public string SomeData
    {
        get
        {
            throw new NotImplementedException();
        }
        set
        {
            MyTextBox.Text = value;
        }
    }

    private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Presenter.ChangeData();
    }
}

public interface IMyView
{
    string SomeData { get; set; }
}

public class MyPresenter
{
    private IMyView View { get; set; }
    public MyPresenter(IMyView view)
    {
        View = view;
        View.SomeData = "test string";
    }

    public void ChangeData()
    {
        View.SomeData = "Some changed data";
    }
}

As you can see, the Form only has some infrastructure code to thy everything together. All your logic is inside your Presenter class which only knows about a View Interface.

If you want to unit test this you can use a Mocking tool like Rhino Mocks to mock the View interface and pass that to your presenter.

[TestMethod]
public void TestChangeData()
{
    IMyView view = MockRepository.DynamickMock<IMyView>();
    view.Stub(v => v.SomeData).PropertyBehavior();

    MyPresenter presenter = new MyPresenter(view);

    presenter.ChangeData();

    Assert.AreEqual("Some changed data", view.SomeData);
}