Unit testing a Middleware Component in ASP.NET Core

Unit Testing refers to testing the functionality of a component in isolation. A Middleware is an individual component that is responsible for a single functionality in a request pipeline.

Middlewares are one of the most powerful components in the ASP.NET Core framework, using which we can perform a particular functionality over an incoming request or an outgoing response.

We can use them for practical purposes such as Logging, Authorization, Routing and for more complex scenarios that suit our requirements.

A custom Middleware class can hold some business logic which does require testing for any errors.

Unit Testing refers to testing the functionality of a component in isolation.

By writing Unit Tests for the logic that happens in a Middleware just to ensure that everything happens as expected when an actual request passes by.

In this week’s newsletter let us discuss about how we can unit test a custom Middleware component in ASP.NET Core using xUnit with an example.

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