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    <p>I've written an application that interacts with at least one third party resource (in my case it's a website and there are many websites that need to be tested against) that I do not have control over. Part of the interaction requires logging in with real user credentials and interacting with data that is transient.</p> <p>As such, I have the following problems:</p> <ul> <li>My test(s) must include private data (username and password) in order to log in</li> <li>The data I'm looking for will no longer be valid anywhere from 24 to 48 hours after the identifier pointing at that data has been coded into the test(s) and new data matching the test scenario will need to be chosen</li> </ul> <p>Which gives rise to the following questions:</p> <ul> <li>How and where should I reference this data to prevent it from accidentally ending up in source control?</li> <li>Is there a way to request this input as a precondition of running the relevant tests?</li> <li>How should I deal with the problem that automated build scenarios will fail when the test data becomes outdated every couple of days?</li> <li>What are the best practices for writing tests that deal with this sort of scenario?</li> </ul> <p>I'm using Microsoft's unit testing framework with .Net 4.</p>
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