October 2008 - Posts

SharpMock 0.1 ? by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

James, I would love to see you take the idea of “SharpMock” to the next level . If not anything else, it would be an interesting challenge to write about. James took PostSharp and started looking at the possibility of intercepting static method calls...

Isolator feature focus – Advanced Debugger Support for fakes by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

Two features that Typemock Isolator has make the debugging experience with it very different than any other isolation framework: 1) Highlight fake method during debugging   When stepping into a method that is being faked by the test, the method will...
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Art Of Unit Testing – Book done, Wiki ready by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

I’m happy to report that my book has finally hit the “last review” stone, which means all chapters are done and the book should be in book stores around jan-feb 2009 . If you’d like to read the E-Book version right now(PDF) you can purchase that for a...

Isolator feature focus: Recursive Fakes by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

Here’s another feature Typemock Isolator has that no one else currently has: the ability to return fake objects from properties recursively (without the use of an auto mocking container for such a feat). this saved a lot of reperitive test code of creating...

BDD: Behavior vs. Spec Frameworks by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

In my search to understand a little more about BDD and BDD frameworks, one gem that I gleaned is that there is an important distinction between “Spec” and “Behavior” frameworks. “Spec” is intended for the unit level granularity (like unit tests) and Read...
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Agile Testing tools List by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

Working on an appendix for my book , with a list of tools and frameworks you should care about. Tell me if I missed anything: · Mock Frameworks o Moq o Rhino Mocks o Typemock Isolator o NMock o NUnit.Mocks · Test Frameworks o MS Test o NUnit o MbUnit...
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Isolator feature focus: Live objects in unit tests by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

Here is one feature that sets Typemock Isolator apart from all the other frameworks, that has nothing to do with legacy code: Live Objects. This feature allows you to just “new” up an instance of an object, if you can, and then fake method results on...

Unit Testing decoupled from TDD as well== Adoption by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

The discussion on the future of unit testing for the masses has shifted from the standard “if they are too stupid to learn it, we don’t want them” to “TDD without good design will make really bad tests”. and this is a good thing. it’s a good thing because...
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