I've been able to successfully write some integration and unit tests for an app that doesn't require authentication (hooray!). However, now I'm starting some tests on an app that does require authentication. Unit tests are still no problem, however, I'm struggling to figure out how to write an integration test when I need

cgi.remote_user

populated in

main.index

as I'm doing something like

userId = cgi.remote_user

and then passing

userID

into a function to retrieve data and then display it on the screen based on who is logged in. What is the best approach here?

this uses lucee's _internalRequest but you can just substitute cfhttp if you like https://github.com/lucee/Lucee/blob/6.0/test/general/AdminPages.cfc

Thanks! I'll take a look!

without seeing the context, I might recommend making that a method like

getUserID

that is an easy-to-mock method in a testing environment.

I'm not sure! I'm only familiar with mocking in a unit testing context. Not sure if mocking works in tandem with the

execute

handler\method function in integration tests or not. I'll have to play around with it some more. Thanks for the thought. I know I can set values in the rc scope with

getRequestContext().setValue( "name", "value" )

but struggling to figure out how to override values that are populated in the handler method itself by calls to service methods.