.net - Unit testing C# protected methods

Question

I come from the Java EE world but now I'm working on a .Net project. In Java when I wanted to test a protected method it was quite easy, just having the test class with the same package name was enough.

Is there anything similar for C#? Is there any good practice for unit testing the protected methods? I only found frameworks and people saying that I should test only public methods.

It should be possible to do it without any framework…

Answer 1

You can inherit the class you are testing on your test class.

[TestClass]
public class Test1 : SomeClass
{
    [TestMethod]
    public void MyTest
    {
        Assert.AreEqual(1, ProtectedMethod());
    }

}