Unit Testing - No Time for Sleeping

Using Moles .NET[^], you can quickly reduce the time to execute unit tests by rerouting calls to Thread.Sleep to be a no-op in your production code.

Note: In certain integration situations, Thread.Sleep would be required, but I'm referring to artificial delays that may be injected for various reasons that are not necessary for unit testing.

The code would simply look like the following:

using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Moles;
using Microsoft.Moles.Framework;
using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;

[assembly: MoledType(typeof(Thread))]

...

[TestMethod]
[HostType("Moles")]
public void TestMethod1()
{
  MThread.SleepInt32 = x => { /* Do nothing. */ };

  /* Insert your normal unit test code here... */
}

For cases where you need to circumvent the above, you can take advantage of MolesContext.ExecuteWithoutMoles or just clear out the Action you supplied to MThread.SleepInt32.

Note: The above code will impact not only Thread.Sleep(int), but also Thread.Sleep(TimeSpan).