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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...

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...

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...

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...

Extending Depender with your own custom dependency rules by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

In the previous post I introduced Depender , to help find dependency issues in your code (usually for testing). I've added extensibility to it so that you can write your own rules. If you download depender there will also be a "src" directory...
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Introducing Depender - Testability Problem Finder by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

Depender is a tool that I created to illustrate several concepts both for my book and both for my training classes. I think it should prove valuable (as it gets more and more features) to anyone who is trying to write tests for existing code.   Depender...

TDD 5-day course\workshop in Norway by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

If you're in norway, this might be of interest to you. I'll be doing two 5-day courses on TDD and Unit Testing in august and december. here are the dates and links to the full course outlines: Courses are currently limited to 20 attendees and...
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Typemock Isolator 4.3 and future syntax by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

We just released Typemock Isolator 4.3 ( here is the blog post with details ). It's an awesome product but I envy the speed and ease with which oren can change his syntax (it's nice to work alone!) . I can tell you that the next version of Isolator...
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Over-testable systems, and mocks as bad test smells by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

This is an interesting problem I've been running into at work. Sometimes we would try to write a test against the system or a component and we would literally have too many choices of how to write it or where to "intercept" or "inject"...

Unit Testing Interview at TechEd by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

My interview at teched us on advanced unit testing and legacy code can be seen here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/events/teched/cc676818.aspx   or downloaded here We occasionally stop and laugh a bit because "speaker idol" contest was...

Fit/Fitnesse Fixture Gallery -Real world help for FIT and Fitnesse users by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

This great news was just published at the alt.net mailing list. putting it here for future reference. "Fixture Gallery 2.0 (release 2008-06-09) is now available for download from SourceForge. Fixture Gallery is a cookbook for FIT/FitNesse tests....

Unit testing vs. Integration Testing : The Restaurant Analogy by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

Here's an analogy I came up with to explain the difference between unit tests and integration tests. Imagine going to a restaurant with a bunch of your friends. there are some couples there as well as singles. At the end of the meal, it is time to...

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...

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...
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