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Over Specification in Tests by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

I've gotten the chance to visit and consult various companies and I see this all the time: Over specification in tests, especially when doing mocks and stubs . One main reason for that is that people use their stub as a mock object (stubs are fake...

A sneak Preview of Typemock Racer : Thread Deadlock Finder by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

Here's a sneak preview of the upcoming Typemock Racer product, which I'm currently working on. We should be out in private CTP in a couple of weeks I hope. Typemock Racer tries to solve one huge problem for developers working in multi threaded...

Is Moq too poweful? by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

It's interesting to see the other mocking frameworks as they grow into maturity. Especially Moq which has been getting loads of new features recently. The latest one is something which makes me feel a bit weird after reading all the things people...

Tough Questions about unit testing - Your comments required by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

As part of My Book I have a chapter on the challenges of integrating unit testing practices into an organization. One of the sections deals with "Tough questions and answers". In short, what are the tough questions you will have to deal with...

NullObject.For<T> - As simple as it gets, but no simpler by ISerializable - Roy Osherove&#39;s Blog : Agile

This NullObject Factory from Paul is very nice, simple and clean in its design. I really like it and I can see many uses for it, in parallel with working with your standard mocking framework or IoC Container Implementation .   here is a little usage...

Unit Testing Denial Pattern #1: Pretending the test is no longer valid by ISerializable - Roy Osherove&#39;s Blog : Agile

Today was both a good day for e and a bad day for me. Good day because I managed to get a full suite of tests that were somehow failing to work again after a refactoring that got out of hand. Bad - because out of all the tests, one of them failed. Here's...
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Future of Mock Frameworks: AEIS - Abstract Expectations & Isolation Syntax by ISerializable - Roy Osherove&#39;s Blog : Agile

As I was looking back and forward on the changing syntax of testing and mock frameworks, it occurs to me that there are still things that need to be solved in the mocking space. many things. It's hard to choose a framework and stick with it because...
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Typemock Isolator 4.2 Beta released with cool new features (Previously Typemock.NET) by ISerializable - Roy Osherove&#39;s Blog : Agile

We just released the beta of Typemock Isolator 4.2 beta (Previously just named Typemock.NET). You can get it here . Some of the cool new things: Mocked methods will be highlighted in the debugger if you step into them. in the picture below the "DoSomething...
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The evolution of Unit Testing Syntax and Semantics by ISerializable - Roy Osherove&#39;s Blog : Agile

The semantics of how you write a unit test, the basic syntax, or Domain Specific language of how we write them, has been relatively stale for quite some years now.  But under the covers, the syntax revolution seems to be brewing, as people try to...
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Joining TypeMock by ISerializable - Roy Osherove&#39;s Blog : Agile

Happy new year :) A new year is a great time to start off new things, or to renew old commitments that have been somehow left behind. I'm excited to announce that starting Jan 1 I will start working at TypeMock as a senior developer. I will help create...
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Basic Guidelines for using RowTest and data driven tests by ISerializable - Roy Osherove&#39;s Blog : Agile

I took a look at the code that was used to create the NUnit RowTest Extension (which is pretty neat) and found this in one of the samples: The highlighted areas in the code show something which I feel is problematic and is the manifestation of a unit...
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Data Layer Testing: Test Inheritance Patterns by ISerializable - Roy Osherove&#39;s Blog : Agile

I'm preparing for my tutorial on Database and Data Layer unit testing that I will be giving at the Agile Practices Conference  next week. It's always nice to have a full 3 hours to get pretty deep into something. 75 minutes just isn't...
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[Song] Every Build You Break by ISerializable - Roy Osherove&#39;s Blog : Agile

This guy just posted a youtube video with the song I did from my session on continuous Integration during Teched Barcelona. I wrote a song (along with Sting and the Police) called "Every Build You Break". Here's the video. enjoy! Read More...
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Mocking LINQ Queries, Extension methods and Anonymous Types by ISerializable - Roy Osherove&#39;s Blog : Agile

One of the things I wanted to show at my Interactive session on unit testing tips and tricks at TechEd this year was how you can "Stub" out results from LINQ Queries, or mock\stub Extension methods in .NET 3.5 ( what's the difference between...
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The various meanings of TDD by ISerializable - Roy Osherove&#39;s Blog : Agile

Now that I'm having some real time to write something I thought I'd try to write down my thoughts starting all the way back from JAOO and what I learned from it. Specifically the whole notion of TDD, and what does TDD mean to different people...
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