ISerializable : Typemock, .NET

Preview: Placeholder arguments and custom argument checkers

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:50:32 GMT

here is a glimpse of the feature the guys are working on at the moment. I call it “Placeholder Arguments”. It’s a variation of the “how do you allow the user to check parameters passed to a method?” question when working with isolation frameworks. We...(read more)

Isolation frameworks – lessons from the wild

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:20:04 GMT

I’m in the process of teaching another TDD master class in Oslo this week, and in the past two days we went over the major Isolation frameworks in .NET (I refuse to say Mocking frameworks anymore. the “Mock” work is too overloaded as it is). We covered...(read more)

Isolation Syntax for VB.NET - Your comments please

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:15:14 GMT

I'm working on adding a VB.NET Friendly syntax for Typemock Isolator. If you're into VB, I'd love your input on the usability of this API and how to make it better. We'll start going through several basic scenarios that you can do using...(read more)

Announcing Isolator for Sharepoint with a free full license for bloggers

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:49:19 GMT

Time for a freebie! We’re announcing today about a new product: Isolator for sharepoint – which allows unit testing sharepoint code without needing sharepoint installed. “Huh?” It is almost the same as Typemock Isolator, but will only work on APIs that...(read more)

Isolator Feature Focus: Faking Collections

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:57:32 GMT

Another cool feature in Isolator is the ability to fake values that will be returned from custom collections (anything that inherits from IEnumerable as long as it is not in mscorlib - for example - sharepoint lists). With the new version you can now...(read more)

Isolator Feature Focus: Duck Typing and Isolate.Swap

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:25:00 GMT

Typemock Isolator 5.1.1 has been released, and this release brings with it some awesome (seriously) features that are unique fro any other framework I've seen. a good overview of features can be found here . The Isolator Swap feature allows swapping...(read more)

SharpMock 0.1 ?

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:57:51 GMT

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...(read more)

Isolator feature focus – Advanced Debugger Support for fakes

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:15:36 GMT

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...(read more)

Isolator feature focus: Recursive Fakes

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:17:05 GMT

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...(read more)

Isolator feature focus: Live objects in unit tests

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:37:06 GMT

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...(read more)