.NET 8 Testing Times

It's always been difficult to test anything that depends on time, because time is out of control. But with the .NET 8 TimeProvider, we can take control of time itself.
Source code available at: github.com/JasperKent/Timer-T...
There were a couple of imperfections in the final version on the video, which I've fixed in the latest revision on GitHub. The mocking of GetUtcNow() in TickFiresEvent() was unnecessary, and the events in the Blazor component needed to be unsubscribed before the clock was switched.
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Topics include:
- The problems of testing time-based applications
- CSS animation in Blazor
- Using the NSubstitute mocking library
- The TimeProvider class
- The DateTimeOffset struct
- The ITimer interface
- The null coalescing assignment operator (??=)
- Keyed dependency injection
- Mocking the current time
- Mocking timers

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Any other areas of testing you find particularly tricky? Leave a comment.
Source code available at: github.com/JasperKent/Timer-Testing
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[@mahdi4581]

good👍

[@alfflasymphonyx]

Nice video but I still find it way too complicated. I would siimply launch the application with the value of TimeProvider set to whatever needs testing. Thus no mocking and all the rest.
But thanks for the very nice video.

[@CodingTutorialsAreGo]

How do you do the timers?

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