FakeConsole

FakeConsole - is a simple helper class to help you better test dotnet console apps

Story of FakeConsole

While playing with online problem solving websites, like HackRank. developers need from time to time to test the solution on their PCs to debug any unexpected behaviour.

Most probably developer will do (run the program > manually write inputs to console > check results) many times.

The most time-wasting step is to manually insert inputs to console, FakeConsole core purpose is to help in this step. and it also comes with some extra help like validating the final outputs of all Console.WriteLine called during program execution.

How to use

1. You have to download the FakeConsole file and add it to your solution.
2. You need to add using Console = FakeConsole; to your program namespaces.
3. You need to set FakeConsole.ReadLines field with all of your lines, separated by line breaks.

Example

using System;
using Console = FakeConsole;

class Solution
{
    
    static void Main(String[] args)
    {
        Console.ReadLines = @"first line
second line
third line";

        //all next lines will be served from FakeConsole, no popups will be needed to ask user for anything
        var line1 = Console.ReadLine();
        var line2 = Console.ReadLine();
        var line3 = Console.ReadLine();
    }
}