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In theory unit testing in Botframework V4 should easy enough as it’s based on .net core. But, as with many things, it might not be that obvious. So here is a quick snippet showing a test for a Waterfall flow;

[TestMethod]
public async Task Waterfall()
{
    var convoState = new ConversationState<Dictionary>(new MemoryStorage());

    var adapter = new TestAdapter()
        .Use(convoState);

    //var dialogState = convoState.CreateProperty("dialogState");
    var dialogs = new DialogSet();
    dialogs.Add("textPrompt", new TextPrompt());

    dialogs.Add("test",
        new WaterfallStep[]
        {
            async (dc, args, next) =>
            {
                    await dc.Context.SendActivity("Welcome! We need to ask a few questions to get started.");
                    await dc.Prompt("textPrompt", "What's your name?");
            },
            async (dc, args, next) =>
            {
                dc.ActiveDialog.State["name"] = args["Value"];
                await dc.Context.SendActivity($"Thanks {args["Value"]}!");
                await dc.End();
            }
        }
    );

    await new TestFlow(adapter, async (turnContext) =>
    {
        var state = turnContext.GetConversationState<Dictionary>();
        var dc = dialogs.CreateContext(turnContext, state);
        await dc.Continue();
        if (!turnContext.Responded)
        {
            await dc.Begin("test");
        }
    })
    .Send("Hello")
    .AssertReply("Welcome! We need to ask a few questions to get started.")
    .AssertReply("What's your name?")
    .Send("Paul")
    .AssertReply("Thanks Paul!")
    .StartTest();
}

A couple of points to note, you have to send a message to start the flow, and make sure you call turnContext.GetConversationState rather than using a local version of the state.

Edit – you may want to also look at Automate Bot tests with saved transcript files , Testing using ConfigurationManager with .net core and How to write a unit test for Bot Framework v4