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Adds TM011 (Info) to TUnit.Mocks.Analyzers, with a code fix in TUnit.Mocks.Analyzers.CodeFixers.

For interfaces, T.Mock() returns a generated wrapper (for example IFooMock) that derives from Mock<T> and also implements T. When that value is stored in something declared as Mock<T>, the wrapper is hidden: the mock can no longer be passed where a T is expected, and IntelliSense shows less. TM011 flags those declarations and the fix changes the declared type:

private Mock<IFoo> _mock = null!;          // TM011: Declare '_mock' as 'IFooMock' instead of 'Mock<IFoo>'
Mock<IFoo> strict = IFoo.Mock(MockBehavior.Strict);

// after the fix
private IFooMock _mock = null!;
IFooMock strict = IFoo.Mock(MockBehavior.Strict);

When it reports

The fix changes a declaration, so the analyzer only reports when it can prove the change is safe:

  • Where: locals, and private fields and auto-properties (or expression-bodied properties) of a type whose parts are all in the same file. Public, protected and internal members, and private members of partial types split across files, are skipped because code the analyzer can't see could assign or read them.
  • Writes: every value stored (initializer, =, ??=) must be null, default or the wrapper type, and at least one must be the wrapper. Assigning Mock.Of<IFoo>() or another Mock<IFoo>, ref/out arguments and deconstruction all suppress the diagnostic.
  • Reads: no read may depend on the type staying Mock<T>. Generic type inference (Task.FromResult(_mock)), lambda return types and var copies suppress it. Arguments are accepted only when rebinding the call, constructor or indexer with the wrapper type picks the same member. Overloads such as Use(Mock<IFoo>) + Use(IFoo) are suppressed. Casts, as, is and type patterns must stay legal on the sealed wrapper. Member access and explicitly typed targets are fine.
  • References are matched by original definition, so writes through another constructed generic type (Holder<int>._mock) are checked.
  • Nullable annotations are kept (Mock<IFoo>? becomes IFooMock?). The wrapper name is written as it is visible from the declaration (for example App.IFooMock when App is not imported).

TM010 already had the "does this position depend on the expression's type" logic, so it moves into a shared MockTypeFlow helper. TM010 gets the same overload and cast checks through the shared helper. All its existing tests pass.

Docs: the "Typed Mock Wrapper" section of the mocking docs now names the wrapper type and describes TM011. The "Implicit Conversion" section is corrected: Mock<T>'s implicit conversion to T only applies to class mocks, because C# never applies user-defined conversions to interface types.

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  • tests/TUnit.Mocks.Analyzers.Tests (net10.0): 104/104 pass, including 15 TM011 tests (locals, fields, properties, nullable, qualified and generic types, multiple declarators, Fix All, and the negative cases above) and all existing TM010 tests.
  • End-to-end against the real source generator: a scratch project referencing TUnit.Mocks, SourceGenerator.Roslyn414, the analyzers and the code fixers. dotnet format analyzers --diagnostics TM011 --severity info rewrote a local, a field and a nullable field to IGreeterMock. The project then built with no errors and no remaining TM011.
  • Ran TUnit.DocSnippetGenerator locally. The new docs fence is classified as statements. The CI doc-test compile will confirm it builds.

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  • New Features
    • Added an informational suggestion to use a generated mock type instead of Mock<T> when the change is safe, with an automated code fix.
    • Expanded guidance on generated interface wrappers, implicit conversions, and when to use .Object.

…rated mock type

For interfaces, T.Mock() returns a generated wrapper (e.g. IFooMock) that derives
from Mock<T> and also implements T. TM011 (Info) reports locals, private fields
and private properties declared as Mock<T> that only ever hold that wrapper, and
the code fix changes the declaration to the wrapper type.

The analyzer only reports where it can see every reference (locals, and private
members of a type whose parts are all in one file), every write stores null,
default or the wrapper type, and no read depends on the type staying Mock<T>.
The type-flow helpers TM010 already used for this are moved to MockTypeFlow.

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This change adds TM011 for eligible Mock<T> declarations, checks whether replacing their declared type preserves supported uses, and provides a code fix. Documentation describes generated wrapper types and interface mock conversions.

Changes: Generated mock type analysis

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared type-flow analysis and diagnostic contract
src/TUnit.Mocks.Analyzers/DiagnosticIds.cs, src/TUnit.Mocks.Analyzers/Rules.cs, src/TUnit.Mocks.Analyzers/MockTypeFlow.cs, src/TUnit.Mocks.Analyzers/PreferStaticMockSyntaxAnalyzer.cs, src/TUnit.Mocks.SourceGenerator/Diagnostics.cs, tests/TUnit.Mocks.Analyzers.Tests/PreferStaticMockSyntaxAnalyzerTests.cs
Adds the TM011 diagnostic contract and shared type-flow checks. PreferStaticMockSyntaxAnalyzer now uses MockTypeFlow to check whether rewritten types affect binding.
TM011 eligibility and reference analysis
src/TUnit.Mocks.Analyzers/PreferGeneratedMockTypeAnalyzer.cs
Adds checks for eligible local variables, private fields, and properties. The analyzer validates values and references before reporting an accessible generated mock type.
Code fix, documentation, and validation
src/TUnit.Mocks.Analyzers.CodeFixers/PreferGeneratedMockTypeCodeFixProvider.cs, tests/TUnit.Mocks.Analyzers.Tests/PreferGeneratedMockTypeAnalyzerTests.cs, docs/docs/writing-tests/mocking/index.md
Adds the type-replacement code fix and tests for supported and rejected cases. The documentation describes wrapper naming, TM011, and interface mock conversions.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

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  participant CSharpCompilation
  participant PreferGeneratedMockTypeAnalyzer
  participant TM011Diagnostic
  participant PreferGeneratedMockTypeCodeFixProvider
  participant Document
  CSharpCompilation->>PreferGeneratedMockTypeAnalyzer: Analyze declarations and references
  PreferGeneratedMockTypeAnalyzer->>TM011Diagnostic: Report generated mock type
  TM011Diagnostic->>PreferGeneratedMockTypeCodeFixProvider: Provide diagnostic properties
  PreferGeneratedMockTypeCodeFixProvider->>Document: Replace declared type
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  • thomhurst/TUnit#7307: Adds TM010 and the code-fixer project. This change shares and extends type-flow analysis associated with that analyzer.
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Review: TM011 PreferGeneratedMockType

I read the diff for the analyzer, the shared MockTypeFlow, the code fix, the docs and the tests. I did not build the PR or run its tests. I found no blocking issues.

What looks good

  • The analyzer reports only when the change is provably safe. It requires every write to be null, default or the wrapper type, and at least one write to be the wrapper. It also requires that no read depends on the type staying Mock<T>.
  • Visibility is limited to locals and to private members of types whose parts are all in one file. That is the right boundary.
  • Treating unrecognised syntax positions as sensitive means a missed case suppresses the diagnostic instead of breaking code.
  • Pulling the shared type-flow logic into MockTypeFlow, so TM010 and TM011 use the same helper, avoids two copies drifting apart.
  • The code fix keeps nullable annotations, and Fix All works at document level.
  • MockTypeProperty is a const, so the analyzer and code fix assemblies don't need a runtime binding.

Suggestions (non-blocking)

  1. AcceptReferences visits every IdentifierNameSyntax in the scope and then filters by name. It does the cheap name check before the semantic lookup, which is good. For large test classes you could collect candidate identifiers once per type and share them between multiple Mock<T> members. This is not needed unless profiling shows a cost.
  2. Make sure there are tests for these cases, if there aren't already: a local captured by a lambda, ref/out use, a declaration with several declarators where one of them disqualifies, and a partial type split across files. The PR description claims these are suppressed, and they are the riskiest paths.
  3. The docs say the fix applies to "private fields and properties". It would help to say explicitly that public, internal and protected members are skipped on purpose, so users don't read the missing diagnostic as a bug.

Overall this is a careful, conservative implementation. Approving in spirit.

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Summary

Adds TM011 and a code fix that replaces suitable Mock<T> declarations with the generated wrapper type.

  • TM011 suggests generated wrapper types for eligible interface mocks.
  • TM010 checks whether the generated wrapper would change how a use binds.

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- Line 154: Revise the TM011 explanation in the mocking documentation and its
description in Rules.cs: clarify that Mock<T> can convert implicitly to T, but
exposes T through a user-defined conversion rather than implementing it
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…wrapper type

Review fixes for TM011, also applied to TM010 through the shared MockTypeFlow:

- Arguments: rebind the call, constructor or indexer with the argument cast to the
  wrapper type and require the same member, so Use(Mock<IFoo>) + Use(IFoo)
  (ambiguous) or Use(IFooMock) (different overload) suppress the diagnostic.
- Casts, `as`, `is` and patterns: the wrapper is sealed, so require the conversion
  to still exist (and `is` to still need a runtime check). Equality requires the
  operands to stay comparable. Collection initializers with several Add overloads
  are treated as sensitive.
- TM011 matches references by OriginalDefinition, so writes through another
  constructed generic type (Holder<int>._mock) are checked.
- TM011 checks writes before reads, so the wrapper type is known for every use.
- Docs and TM011 description: Mock<T>'s implicit conversion to T only applies to
  class mocks; C# ignores user-defined conversions to interface types.

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Review: TM011 PreferGeneratedMockType

I read the analyzer logic in PreferGeneratedMockTypeAnalyzer.cs. I did not build the PR or run its tests.

The design is sound. The analyzer only reports when every write and read is visible: locals, and private members of types whose parts all sit in one file. Because it has to prove the fix is safe, it errs towards not reporting, which is the right trade-off for an Info diagnostic that ships with a code fix.

What I checked:

  • Cheap syntactic pre-filter. LooksLikeMockType runs before any semantic work, so the scope walk only happens for Mock<X> declarations.
  • Accessibility and scope. Public, protected, internal, virtual, override and abstract members are skipped. So are members of partial types split across files.
  • Writes. Only = and ??= are accepted. ref/out, deconstruction and ?. access are rejected, and at least one write must be the wrapper type.
  • Generic containers. Comparing OriginalDefinition handles a member reached through another constructed type.
  • Accessibility of the wrapper. The report is suppressed when the wrapper type isn't accessible from the declaring assembly.

Minor suggestions, none blocking:

  1. AcceptValue rejects cond ? IFoo.Mock() : null and x ?? IFoo.Mock(). This is safe, but it could miss common patterns. Handling ConditionalExpression by recursing into both branches would be easy and keeps the soundness argument.
  2. IsReferenceTo calls symbols.Any(...) with a lambda for every identifier in the scope. For large test classes, a HashSet<string> of names built once would avoid repeated allocation and scanning.
  3. AcceptReferences re-walks the whole type with DescendantNodes().OfType<>() for each candidate declaration. A class with many Mock<T> fields repeats the walk per field. If this shows up in profiling, cache the identifier list per scope, for example with a ConditionalWeakTable keyed by the syntax node.
  4. The symbols[0] use in the field path is fine because all declarators share a type and accessibility. A one-line comment saying so would help the next reader.

Overall this is a solid, conservative analyzer. The tests and docs cover the main suppression cases. Approving from a design standpoint.

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Thanks for the review. Dispositions for the suggestions:

  1. Shared identifier scan across Mock<T> members: not changed. The scan only runs for declarations whose type is already Mock<T>, and the name check runs before any semantic lookup. I'll add caching only if profiling shows a cost.
  2. Tests for the risky paths: lambda capture, ref/out, deconstruction and partial types split across files were already covered by Type_Sensitive_Uses_Are_Not_Reported and Members_Outside_The_Analyzers_View_Are_Not_Reported. Added One_Disqualified_Declarator_Suppresses_The_Whole_Declaration in c415970.
  3. Docs on skipped members: done in c415970. The TM011 docs now say that public, protected and internal members, and partial types split across files, are deliberately not flagged.

The bot review threads (overload rebinding, casts against the sealed wrapper, generic OriginalDefinition matching) are fixed in efadb22. The fixes apply to TM010 as well, through the shared MockTypeFlow.

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Review: TM011 PreferGeneratedMockType

I read the diff and the earlier review comments. I did not build the PR or run its tests, and I did not read the full analyzer and test files line by line.

What looks good

  • The analyzer reports only when it can show the fix is safe. It is limited to locals and private members in single-file types, and it checks every write and read.
  • MockTypeFlow is a sound extraction. It rebinds the call speculatively, so overload and generic-inference changes are caught by the compiler instead of being re-implemented by hand. TM010 reuses it.
  • The code fix keeps the nullable annotation, and its Fix All provider batches edits per document.
  • The docs correction is right: C# never applies a user-defined conversion to an interface type.

Suggestions (non-blocking)

  • IsOverloadResolutionUnchanged re-parses the argument as (FullyQualifiedName)(expr) for each argument position. That is a lot of speculative binding. Keep an eye on it for large files, since the analyzer runs on every build. Consider bailing out early when the target method has a single candidate with a non-generic parameter type.
  • HasSingleAddOverload counts same-name methods up the base chain, which is conservative. That is fine, but a short comment saying the over-suppression is intentional would help the next reader.
  • The earlier threads on identifier-scan caching and on tests for the risky paths (lambda capture, ref/out, deconstruction, split partials) have dispositions from the author. I did not re-check the tests themselves.

Overall this is a careful, conservative design and I found no blocking issues.

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