I have some legacy test classes that I'm updating. One of these get's hung-up by a validation rule that requires a record only be changed by certain users/profile.
Now, I understand that test classes are run by the system and not as any particular users - is this correct? If so, can I structure the validation rule to allow system / test class to make the changes?
Thanks in advance!
Dane
The unit tests run as the user that started the test. You can also use the System.runAs method to run the code as different users. See the example below which creates a new user and then runs the code as that user.
@isTest
private class TestRunAs {
public static testMethod void testRunAs() {
// Setup test data
// This code runs as the system user
Profile p = [SELECT Id FROM Profile WHERE Name='Standard User'];
User u = new User(Alias = 'standt', Email='[email protected]',
EmailEncodingKey='UTF-8', LastName='Testing', LanguageLocaleKey='en_US',
LocaleSidKey='en_US', ProfileId = p.Id,
TimeZoneSidKey='America/Los_Angeles', UserName='[email protected]');
System.runAs(u) {
// The following code runs as user 'u'
System.debug('Current User: ' + UserInfo.getUserName());
System.debug('Current Profile: ' + UserInfo.getProfileId());
}
}
}
Create a custom setting and add the profile or user for whom this validation rule need to be passed and refer that in the validation rule as condition, so it can fire for other users except those included in custom setting
