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What's an Auto Mocking Container?

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:52:50 GMT

...it's a really neat tool if you're writing a lot of unit tests and find yourself forever constructing mock objects

Test Driven Development Tips: Getting Value out of Code Coverage

Tue, 20 May 2008 19:58:45 GMT

Lies, True lies and Statistics -- Coverage tools can be misleading. So how does an organization benefit from having them? Bryan provides some great field notes on do's and don'ts for code coverage, including how tests can ruin coverage.

Unit Testing and Code Coverage - A Powerful Duo

Fri, 16 May 2008 10:55:18 GMT

Unit testing (using NUnit) and code coverage (using NCoverExplorer) make an amazing combination to not only run unit tests, but see how well your tests execute your code. All of this is made even easier by the TestDriven.net Add-in for Visual Studio.

unit testing your events

Sun, 04 May 2008 11:01:02 GMT

In this article I will show you how you can unit test your events. I will show you a simple technique that will enable you to test if your events fire exactly as often as you want them to and I will provide you with two implementations. One implementation works well with the .NET Framework 2.0 and the second one uses .NET 3.0 (anonymous methods) in order to minimize the code necessary.

Host your own Web Server in your app using IIS7 Hostable Web Core

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:27:59 GMT

IIS 7.0 includes a very cool feature that is not so well known called Hostable WebCore (HWC). This feature basically allows you to host the entire IIS functionality within your own process.

TDD: The Road so Far

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:16:02 GMT

Rob talks about traveling the TDD road, shares a few lessons learned, and points out a couple of pros and cons he's discovered along the way.

Unit Testing with Silverlight - the FULL article.

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:31:32 GMT

This is the article that ScottGu points to in http://www.dotnetkicks.com/silverlight/ScottGu_Unit_Testing_with_Silverlight , even thought it has more meat than Scott's article.

ScottGu: Unit Testing with Silverlight

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:16:02 GMT

One of the important capabilities we shipped with the Beta1 release of Silverlight 2 was a unit test harness that enables you to perform both API-level and UI-level unit testing. This testing harness is cross browser and cross platform, and can be used to quickly run and verify automated unit tests.

Moq: Why do we need yet another NET mocking framework?

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:16:02 GMT

"I've already argued in the past why I think forcing regular developers to learn and understand the difference between a stub, a fake, a "true" mock and a dynamic mock is unproductive and largely irrelevant for their TDD needs. Also, even though quite common in the mocking community, the typical record/replay model is alien to developers and introduces yet another new concept that makes the learning curve steeper than needed. "

Simplified Asp.net MVC Controller Testing with Moq

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:01:08 GMT

Want to learn how to better unit test your controllers in Asp.net MVC? In this example I go through the process of testing a controller action in asp.net MVC using Moq (but it could be easily translated into another mocking framework).

When TDD goes bad

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 03:46:03 GMT

Last week, at the London .NET User Group meeting, Ian Cooper talked about Test-driven development, focusing on both good and bad practices. I'm a big fan of learning from anti-patterns and mistakes of other people, so the second part of his session was very interesting to me. Here is a short list of things that Ian identified as symptoms that TDD has gone bad in a project, along with my comments...

TDD or POUT

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:31:02 GMT

Because Unit Testing is the plain-Jane progenitor of Test Driven Development, it's kind of unfair that it doesn't have an acronym of its own. After all, it's hard to get programmer types to pay attention if they don't have some obscure jargon to bandy about. UT is too awkward, besides being a state abbreviation in the U.S., so for this post (and, if it catches on, future posts as well) I'll borrow from the telco folks and call unit testing Plain Old Unit Testing.

Test Supported Development (TSD) is not Test Driven Development (TDD)

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:38:20 GMT

"Test Supported Development" (TSD) intends to characterize the creation of tests during ANY/ALL stages of development, that is, tests are not necessarily created before their respective System Under Test (SUT), but not necessarily created as an afterthought, either...

Tell Me Your Unit Testing Pains

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:01:02 GMT

... Unfortunately, by most definitions of Unit Test, most of these tests are really integration tests.

TDD Proven Effective! Or is it?

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:46:02 GMT

So when Phil Haack announced that Research Supports the Effectiveness of TDD I was more than a little interested in seeing what the linked report actually contained.

Getting Started with Test Driven Development

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:01:46 GMT

"Few days ago I started a poll on www.KoffeeKoder.com where I asked which tool do you use for testing your applications. Surprisingly, most of the people are not using any tool for testing. This means that there are more and more applications being developed which are destined to be failed. In this article I will talk about test driven development hoping that more and more developers start using TDD and see how it benefits the application."

MVC/MVP Framework for WPF

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:16:02 GMT

Rob Eisenberg introduces MVP framework he's been developing for WPF (source code included).

Foundations of Programming - Part 5 - Unit Testing

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:31:02 GMT

Part 5 in Karl Seguins article series

Why Use Continuous Integration - Beginner's Overview

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:16:02 GMT

Good conceptual overview of why to use Continuous Integration. As a person that didn't understand much at all about it. This article sense me down the right direction of understanding.

Mocking out the IHttpContext to test your routing rules

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:36:33 GMT

How to unit test routing rules in the ASP.NET MVC framework.

Launch NUnit Tests directly from Visual Studio and Debug

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:38:19 GMT

Short guide how to launch NUnit tests directly from Visual Studio and using debugger while tests run.

Test-Driven Development for Embedded Software

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:34:09 GMT

Despite a prevalent industry perception to the contrary, the agile practices of Test-Driven Development and Continuous Integration can be successfully applied to embedded software. We present here a holistic set of practices, platform independent tools, and a new design pattern (Model Conductor Hardware - MCH) that together produce: good design from tests programmed first, logic decoupled from hardware, and systems testable under automation. Ultimately, this approach yields an order of magnitude or more reduction in software flaws, predictable progress, and measurable velocity for data-driven project management. We use the approach discussed herein for real-world production systems and have included a full C-based sample project to illustrate it.

Including unit tests in project release

Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:45:15 GMT

It struck me as a great idea to include NUnit test in the next release of my SQLite query browser. If the program crashes or misbehaves, users can run the tests, find out why and either report to me or fix it themselves.

Explaining MbUnit GUI tree.

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:46:02 GMT

Learn how set values in MbUnit tree.

Why I believe in and write unit tests

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:46:31 GMT

A brief explanation of why you would want to use TDD.