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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...

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...

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...

Two Faced Commits - how the ALT.NET Community is becoming more and more dogmatic by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

disclaimer: I work at Typemock. There is a big trend I am starting to notice in the "Advanced" unit testing community. That trend feels more and more like hypocrisy. Take Daniel's post about mocking statics without Typemock . (Daniel is...

Project White and a cool debugging tip by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

Some cool stuff happening in the testing world: * Project white seems like a nice takeoff on winforms testing (a la NUnitForms), from the thoughtworks Guys. Bil Simser talks about it some more .   * Gregg Miskelly came up with a brilliant debugging...

Trying out Team City - Looks Promising! by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

I've been looking both at CI Factory by Jay Flowers , and Team City by JetBrains lately. this has to do with the fact that at Typemock we currently have a Continuous Integration solution that is largely based on CruiseControl.NET and MSBuild files...
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The evolution of Unit Testing Syntax and Semantics by ISerializable - Roy Osherove'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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Organization Problems - Sounds Familiar? by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

I just finished a summary of a company's review about work modes and problems before we can start doing something about it. I'm posting part of it as anonymous because I think this seems to relate to many other companies out there: " The...
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Things I learned at JAOO 2007 by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

Martin Fowler may be one of the great minds of our engineering age, but his accent sounds a lot like MR. Bean. He's also not a great social figure and also sems to speak when spoken to. Eccentric. Robert C. Martin is a good Drummer. He played the...
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The Art Of Unit Testing - Available to Purchase Online Now by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

I'm happy to announce that you can now purchase my book The Art Of Unit Testing through the Manning Early Access Program. Currently, the first five chapters are available, but when you purchase the MEAP version you get the new chapters as they come...
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