Faking Current HttpContext

I seldom need to deal with HttpContext and session directly in testing.

However if I ever need to fake the current HttpContext information, I use the following method (taken from here

private HttpContext CreateFakeHttpContext()
{
    var httpRequest = new HttpRequest("", "http://www.asp.net/", "");
    var stringWriter = new StringWriter();
    var httpResponse = new HttpResponse(stringWriter);
    var httpContext = new HttpContext(httpRequest, httpResponse);

    var sessionContainer = new HttpSessionStateContainer("id", new SessionStateItemCollection(),
                                            new HttpStaticObjectsCollection(), 10, true,
                                            HttpCookieMode.AutoDetect,
                                            SessionStateMode.InProc, false);

    httpContext.Items["AspSession"] = typeof(HttpSessionState).GetConstructor(
                                BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance,
                                null, CallingConventions.Standard,
                                new[] { typeof(HttpSessionStateContainer) },
                                null)
                        .Invoke(new object[] { sessionContainer });

    return httpContext;
}

Then I set the current context

HttpContext.Current = CreateFakeHttpContext()

After I have fake context information, I can add session item like usual.