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Typemock Isolator with AAA syntax

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 difference. anything you don't like, say it...

Posted to ISerializable (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-24-2008
Over Specification in Tests

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 objects that we will not assert on so that we can...

Posted to ISerializable (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-12-2008
Poll: What threading features do you use?

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 see it. Please fill it in and we'll see...

Posted to ISerializable (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-10-2008
A sneak Preview of Typemock Racer : Thread Deadlock Finder

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 environments: Detecting code that can result in deadlocks...

Posted to ISerializable (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-08-2008
Is Moq too poweful?

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 fear in Typemock Isolator :It seems that Moq...

Posted to ISerializable (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-06-2008
Extending Depender with your own custom dependency rules

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 in the zip file, which shows how the current...

Posted to ISerializable (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-05-2008
Introducing Depender - Testability Problem Finder

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 allows you to load an assembly and inspect...

Posted to ISerializable (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-05-2008
TDD 5-day course\workshop in Norway

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 are mainly exercise driven (working in pairs). I'm...

Posted to ISerializable (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-03-2008
Typemock Isolator 4.3 and future syntax

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 is going to have a new syntax that is more towards...

Posted to ISerializable (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-03-2008
Over-testable systems, and mocks as bad test smells

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" our stubs or mock objects. In a way...

Posted to ISerializable (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-03-2008

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