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Advanced Unit Test, Part V - Unit Test Patterns

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:43:27 GMT

Patterns for test method-stub generation to improve unit test effectiveness... ...one of the goals is a tool suite that can be used to automatically generate unit tests, both as a reverse and forward engineering process. With the latter, it should be possible to generate the method stubs for the code under test.

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.

MSDN Magazine February 2008

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:16:23 GMT

This issue contains topics like: Mobile WCF, IIS7 Extensibility, VSTO 3.0, Unit Testing (TDD), F#, Modal AJAX Dialogs, Workflow...

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...

The Most Useful VS Feature No One Seems To Use

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:46:02 GMT

Speed up your debugging time by using the Exceptions dialog box.

A brief look at the logic of TDD

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:26:20 GMT

David Tchepak provides a down to earth outline on the rationale and benefits of TDD.

TDD for Beginners Series

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:46:02 GMT

Series of posts geared towards the beginner developer to TDD. These are meant to be as simple as possible to get the understanding across about TDD.

Creating a transparent Panel in .NET

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:01:02 GMT

Today I wanted to create a transparent Panel-Control in .NET in order to superimpose it on the WebBrowser Control in order to record click events. The goal was to code a simple macro recorder for websites. Unfortunatelly the .NET framework does not allow (in an easy way) to make a control fully transparent. So it was back to the good ol' winuser.h and the extended window styles. Namely 0x00000020L or as it is better known WS_EX_TRANSPARENT.

8 Web Design Mistakes That Developers Make

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:31:02 GMT

An excellent website takes a particularly savvy blend of both great design and great code. Because of this, you often find designers having to figure out code and developers trying their hand at design. Speaking as a developer who spent his university years studying among other developers, I can safely say that programmers are not designers.

Expression Tree Basics

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:01:09 GMT

Newcomers to LINQ often find expression trees difficult to grasp. In this post I hope to show that the subject is not quite as difficult as it might appear at first. Any reader who has an intermediate level understanding of LINQ should find the material in this post easy to grasp. An expression tree provides a method of translating executable code into data. This can be very valuable if you want to modify or transform code before executing it. In particular, it can be useful if you want to transform C# code such as a LINQ query expression into code that operates on another process, such as a SQL database. But I'm getting ahead of myself. By the end of this post you will find it easy to understand why it is helpful to translate code into data. First I need to provide a little background. Let's start by seeing the relatively simple syntax for creating an expression tree.

10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:31:02 GMT

ASP.NET 2.0 has many secrets, when revealed, can give you big performance and scalability boost. For instance, there are secret bottlenecks in Membership and Profile provider which can be solved easily to make authentication and authorization faster. Furthermore, ASP.NET Http pipeline can be tweaked to avoid executing unnecessary code that gets hit on each and every request...

Expectation Based Testing with Mocks

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:01:02 GMT

An example and walk-through showing how to use mocks, Rhino.Mocks that is, to do expectation based testing... with a little BDD flavor thrown in just for fun.

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.

Testing your asp.net pages with NunitAsp and not web controls

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:50:52 GMT

Examples to test asp.net pages alwasy use web controls, what if you don't, just follow this tips and you will be running in no time.

Building a Simple Blog Engine with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ - Part 1

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:01:02 GMT

Microsoft released the first CTP of ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions and it includes ASP.NET MVC Framework as one of the main extensions for ASP.NET 3.5. In the first part of this article series about building a simple blog engine with ASP.NET MVC and LINQ, Keyvan introduces the MVC pattern, ASP.NET MVC Framework, and the fundamentals of a simple blogging engine.

Riding The Geek Rewrite Wave

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:01:03 GMT

Rob Conery like to ask the tough questions. In this post he asks when do you know its time to do a rewrite... and how do you tell your client that. Oh, and he has a good bit of fun at my expense along the way. :)

How to Write a Provider Model

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:46:02 GMT

In this article Keyvan teaches you how to write your own data provider for .NET applications using the provider model.

New* .NET 3.5 Feature: AddIn Framework ( Part 1 of 3 )

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:16:02 GMT

Introduction to the addin framework in .NET 3.5

Part Cover a code coverage tool that works with Static methods

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:17:45 GMT

I just found this great free tool, open source, that produces xml, that has a command line interface and a nice GUI. Simple to install and start usint (less that five minutes). Why you should considered it and how it compares with Ncover.

Free Web.config editor

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:31:02 GMT

A free tool that enables editing the Web.config.

Dual Monitors for Developers

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:16:01 GMT

Let's face it, a multiple monitor setup is the only way to go for a software developer, or any other computer professional these days. If you are still using only a single monitor, you are not working at your full potential.

Hello World of Rhino Mocks

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:01:07 GMT

A lot of tutorials on Rhino Mocks are long and complicated. This post gives you just enough basic code to start working with rhino mocks so you can see what is going on.

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."

Unit Tests Don't Work on Cubes

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:46:39 GMT

I've been building web sites for a while now. I've been writing code, object oriented style for the better part of a decade. Unit testing I've been doing for all of about 1-2 years to various degrees. Nothing super advanced yet, and slowly I'm getting some of the more advanced unit testing methods figured out. Not so much advanced, but just newer methods for testing in different situations. So now I've figured out web service unit tests, database unit tests, and all sorts of other ways to unit test things. So my question is, how does one unit test a cube?