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Comments on Corey Haines’ String Calculator TDD Kata Implementation by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

Corey Haines recreated my TDD Kata on his KataCasts blog.  ( click here to learn more about TDD katas ) Since Corey is an experienced TDD practitioner I was honored that he’d given it a go, and was eager to see the video. Later, corey asks for my...

Test driven design – Willed vs. Forced Designs by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

I’m writing this as a typemock employee, but also as someone who has sat on the other side of the line for several good years, and can argue in both ways. The following, I feel, is true no matter where I work.   There are two ways people use tests...

Minimizing unit Test Fragility – 8 features in Typemock Isolator to help by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

in continuation to my challenge (which no one had bothered answering, lazy web!) One of the things that inhibits unit tests in organizations is the idea of fragile tests. a Fragile test is a test that can easily break when the production code changes...

Art of Unit Testing on Hanselminutes by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

Scott Hanselman took me in for a 30 minute interview about Unit Testing Dos and Don’ts in his podcast, Hanselminutes. It was a pleasure, and I hope to be there once more about other topics. Maybe in TechEd Berlin.. Have a listen Read More...

NDC 2009 – Done! by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

NDC 2009 was a blast! Thanks for all the great conversations :) Here’s what it looked like when you look up at a full room in NDC Read More...

Questions every team and dev lead should ask themselves by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

here are the questions that teams and team leads should be asking themselves on a daily\weekly basis. There are more, but these are the basics, to me. It’s part of the summary for the talk “Beautiful teams I am giving at SEConf and NDC. we do a lot of...
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Art Of Unit Testing available at Amazon by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

My book, The Art Of Unit Testing , is now in stock at Amazon. If you’ve read the book, I’d love it if you put in a review on that page. Read More...
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Using Explicit Arrange,Act,Assert scopes in tests – thoughts? by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

What are your thoughts on this style of writing? Specifically the “Explicit” way of defining arrange, act and assert scopes. also, given the name of the test, where should the call to “OnApplyTemplate” be (if you’ve never seen the code)? which version...
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Testing that an event was raised by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

This question keeps coming up: “How can I test that an event was actually raised from my class under test?” actually, there is an easy way to check if an event was raised. you subscribe to the event in your test, and in the event handler you set a boolean...
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Art Of Unit Testing (The Samurai Book)– Get it now, it’s done. by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

The time has actually come. After 2.5 years, and two kids, my book is finally done and is available in full form as an EBook. at the end of the month it will be in print form. Now would be the time to get it, when it is still at a “pre-order” pricing...
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Test Review #3 – Unity by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

Watch previous videos: Test Review #1 – NerdDinner Test Review #2 – ASP.NET MVC     In this video I go over the tests for Microsoft Unity Application Block. Overall the quality of the tests in Unity is pretty good! I could certainly recommend...
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Test Review #2 – ASP.NET MVC Unit Tests by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

See other reviews: Review #1: NerdDinner Here’s the second video review of Unit Tests. This is another one written by Microsoft – ASP.NET MVC ( source ). First, it’s important to state how surprised I was by the high quality of the tests in MVC. The tests...
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Test Review #1 - NerdDinner by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

I’ve decided to start doing some test reviews of tests that I see in the wild. I figured it’s the best way to show people what I mean when I say they do not have readable, maintainable or trustworthy tests. The first episode is the review of the tests...
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API design values and decision matrix by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

We’ve come to a nice way of deciding upon features in the Isolator API. This is what happens when your end product is an API for programmers. First, we realized that we must argue about it . For each type of new feature in the isolator API, we put up...
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Art of unit Testing goes to print in April by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

The book of never ending production is now actually near the end. the projected print date of “Art Of Unit Testing” is now April 30 and I’m happy to see the Amazon page for the book already has one review of the early access version (though he totally...
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