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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
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
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
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
Unit Testing Interview at TechEd

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 being held at the booth next to us, which was really...

Posted to ISerializable (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-13-2008
Fit/Fitnesse Fixture Gallery -Real world help for FIT and Fitnesse users

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. It provides developers with a quick overview of the...

Posted to ISerializable (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-09-2008
Unit testing vs. Integration Testing : The Restaurant Analogy

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 pay. Unit testing is like giving a separate bill...

Posted to ISerializable (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-31-2008
Tough Questions about unit testing - Your comments required

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 when introducing unit testing. here are the questions...

Posted to ISerializable (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-18-2008
"Swapping" instead of "Injecting" calls between classes

Eli Lopian, Typemock CEO and awesome Coder, just created a nice little API wrapper around Typemock Isolator that would allow a very simple and readable "Swapping" effect between classes. It would allow you to write code like this: [ Test ] ...

Posted to ISerializable (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-17-2008
NullObject.For<T> - As simple as it gets, but no simpler

This NullObject Factory from Paul is very nice, simple and clean in its design. I really like it and I can see many uses for it, in parallel with working with your standard mocking framework or IoC Container Implementation . here is a little usage example (last line): var controller = new AccountController...

Posted to ISerializable (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-10-2008

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