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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...
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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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Unit Testing decoupled from Design == Adoption by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

In my previous post I started talking in more coherent words about feelings I’ve had lurking in the past year. This post is an expansion of that, after having some great twitter conversations in the past few days with some great people. Treat this as...
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Goodbye mocks, Farewell stubs by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

About 4 years ago I was consulting for one of the largest companies in Israel (about 15,000+ employees) and helping them grok TDD and automated unit testing. I had spent there over a year and a half, on and off, and was teaching both .net, C++ and java...
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Typemock Isolator with AAA syntax by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

We've just posted a preview of the next Isolator API coming out in august. It is AAA-style (Arrange, act, assert) and has many changes. We need your input so head on over, read it and tell us your thoughts . This is the time where you can make a huge...
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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...
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Poll: What threading features do you use? by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

As we are working on the next set of features for Typemock Racer, the threading related test framework , I think it will be nice to know what features and thread constructs people use the most in their applications. The poll below uses flash, if you can't...
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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...
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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...
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