
using Xunit;
using Xunit;
using System;
using System.IO;

namespace ConsoleApp {
    public class ProgramTests {
        [Fact(DisplayName = "CreateSeatingChart returns a 3x4 array of names")] 
        public void CreateSeatingChart_ReturnsCorrectDimensionsAndNames() 
        {
            var chart = Program.CreateSeatingChart();
            Assert.Equal(3, chart.GetLength(0));
            Assert.Equal(4, chart.GetLength(1));
            string[] expectedNames = new string[] {
                "Alice", "Bob", "Charlie", "Diana",
                "Eve", "Frank", "Grace", "Heidi",
                "Ivan", "Judy", "Mallory", "Niaj"
            };
            int idx = 0;
            for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
            {
                for (int j = 0; j < 4; j++)
                {
                    Assert.Equal(expectedNames[idx], chart[i, j]);
                    idx++;
                }
            }
        }

        [Fact(DisplayName = "PrintSeatingChart prints each row with names separated by ' | '")]
        public void PrintSeatingChart_PrintsTableFormat()
        {
            string[,] chart = new string[3, 4]
            {
                {"Alice", "Bob", "Charlie", "Diana"},
                {"Eve", "Frank", "Grace", "Heidi"},
                {"Ivan", "Judy", "Mallory", "Niaj"}
            };
            var sw = new StringWriter();
            Console.SetOut(sw);
            Program.PrintSeatingChart(chart);
            string output = sw.ToString().Trim();
            string[] expectedRows = new string[] {
                "Alice | Bob | Charlie | Diana",
                "Eve | Frank | Grace | Heidi",
                "Ivan | Judy | Mallory | Niaj"
            };
            foreach (var row in expectedRows)
            {
                Assert.Contains(row, output);
            }
            Console.SetOut(new StreamWriter(Console.OpenStandardOutput()) { AutoFlush = true });
        }
    }
}

ProgramTests.cs

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Challenge: Seating Chart

Solution