Apex Unit testing of Criteria Based Sharing

Question

I have a requirement that uses criteria based sharing. I wish to unit test this requirement.

I have seen this SE post that says that we can not test Criteria based sharing and I have seen the help docs that also say criteria based sharing can not be unit tested. ("criteria-based sharing cannot be tested using Apex.")

However the post above is nearly 2 years old, so does anyone have a recommended approach around this to allow some level of testing of data visibility for a specific profile or public group member within unit tests?

Answer 1

There is no way to unit test Criteria Based Sharing so that post is still accurate, So what I would do is create a few records, and then jump from user name to user name and see if they can see the newly created record. It's going to have to be a manual process..

https://help.salesforce.com/HTViewHelpDoc?id=security_sharing_cbs_about.htm&language=en_US