When i generated unit tests the Visual studio added some fictive class that mocks my class and added the "Shadowing" attribute. What does it do?
Asked
Active
Viewed 1,587 times
1 Answers
7
Did some research and found this. Apparantly, the [Shadowing]
attribute is used by MSTest
when it creates an accessor class that allows you to call a private method on a class as if it were public.
So when you're unit testing a private method of a target class, that private method will be available to you via the accessor wrapper class for the target class.

Jason Evans
- 28,906
- 14
- 90
- 154