How to test WCF timeout settings?

Question

Hi,

How can I unit test the effect of each WCF timeout setting? I want to ensure that I select good values and I also want to make sure that my exception handling code is solid.

I created client program and a server WCF service to test the timeout settings. In my service implementation, I added a Thread.Sleep(5000). On the client-side, the only setting that causes a timeout to happen is sendTimeout.

No matter which value I use in all the other settings, the timeout never occurs. How to I test all the other settings?

Here are the settings I would like to test: sendTimeout, receiveTimeout, closeTimeout, openTimeout and inactivityTimeout (in reliableSessions).

Edit 19 feb 2009 : This edit is just to indicate that I still haven't found a way to unit test the WCF timeout settings.

Answer 1

Not a complete answer, but the explanation of the timeout values linked below may be helpful.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/wcf/thread/84551e45-19a2-4d0d-bcc0-516a4041943d/

Answer 2

If you look in the right place, you can get the channel events and modify your test to be aware of them. Connect is a boolean method on the WCF service. I used svcutil to generate a proxy class using async methods.

private StateManagerClient _stateManagerClient;
private InstanceContext _site;

public New()
{
    _site = new InstanceContext(this);
    _serviceClient = new ServiceClient();
    _serviceClient.ConnectCompleted += ServiceClient_ConnectCompleted;
}

private void ServiceClient_ConnectCompleted(object sender, ConnectCompletedEventArgs e)
{
    //Bind to the channel events
    foreach (IChannel a in _site.OutgoingChannels) {
        a.Opened += Channel_Opened;
        a.Faulted += Channel_Faulted;
        a.Closing += Channel_Closing;
        a.Closed += Channel_Closed;
    }
}

private void Channel_Opened(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    
}

private void Channel_Faulted(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    
}

private void Channel_Closing(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    
}

private void Channel_Closed(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

I hope this provides you some value.