How do I unit test a finalizer?

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Published on 2010-05-24T09:07:06Z Indexed on 2010/05/24 9:11 UTC
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I have the following class which is a decorator for an IDisposable object (I have omitted the stuff it adds) which itself implements IDisposable using a common pattern:

public class DisposableDecorator : IDisposable
{
    private readonly IDisposable _innerDisposable;

    public DisposableDecorator(IDisposable innerDisposable)
    {
        _innerDisposable = innerDisposable;
    }

    #region IDisposable Members

    public void Dispose()
    {
        Dispose(true);
        GC.SuppressFinalize(this);
    }

    #endregion

    ~DisposableDecorator()
    {
        Dispose(false);
    }

    protected virtual void Dispose(bool disposing)
    {
        if (disposing)
            _innerDisposable.Dispose();
    }
}

I can easily test that innerDisposable is disposed when Dispose() is called:

[Test]
public void Dispose__DisposesInnerDisposable()
{
    var mockInnerDisposable = new Mock<IDisposable>();

    new DisposableDecorator(mockInnerDisposable.Object).Dispose();

    mockInnerDisposable.Verify(x => x.Dispose());
}

But how do I write a test to make sure innerDisposable does not get disposed by the finalizer? I want to write something like this but it fails, presumably because the finalizer hasn't been called by the GC thread:

[Test]
public void Finalizer__DoesNotDisposeInnerDisposable()
{
    var mockInnerDisposable = new Mock<IDisposable>();

    new DisposableDecorator(mockInnerDisposable.Object);
    GC.Collect();

    mockInnerDisposable.Verify(x => x.Dispose(), Times.Never());
}

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