I’m only a little behind in reading for my 2010 developer-oriented book reading list, but I seem to be falling quite a bit behind in actually writing up book reviews. Here’s a belated review from my May book, Working Effectively With Legacy Code by Michael Feathers. I chose this book because I had heard people [...]
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I’ve been doing various degrees of Test Driven Development for several years and am still a strong advocate, but I’m definitely in one of those stages now where I am rethinking my approach. The last time I found myself in this position was several years ago during my pre-mocking days when my test suite was [...]
I just sent the following email to the BCL (Base Class Library) Team Blog email address in hopes of getting some insight into a weird problem we’ve been having. I was hoping you could give me some general guidance on how Type.GetProperties() determines the sequence of the PropertyInfo objects it returns. I just ran across [...]
I’ve been playing around with mock objects using Rhino.Mocks for the last few months, but today was the first time that I had an unfettered coding win and became a true convert. I was introduced to NUnit about five years ago from a co-worker (thanks Dewayne) and gradually became a true believer. Unfortunately, I was [...]
I’ve played with MbUnit before and was immediately impressed, but I haven’t tried using it on a project until today. I was surprised by how quickly and easily I was able to convert all of my NUnit tests. All I had to do was switch the references from NUnit.Framework to MbUnit.Framework and then do a [...]
When I first heard about Behavior Driven Development, I dismissed it as a trivial re-branding of TDD (Test-Driven Development). I figured that either someone was getting way too anal about “getting the words right” or else a concerted effort was being made to make TDD more palatable to the skeptics in the same way that [...]
I used Resharper’s unit-test runner for the first time while spelunking WatiN last week and quickly became a fan. If unit-test runners were high school boys, here are a few reasons why the Resharper test runner would be dating the entire cheer leading squad while the NUnit test runner would have to bribe a distant, homely cousin in order [...]
Several weeks ago I used WatiN (pronounced as What-in) to create a suite of automated GUI tests for an old internal ASP application that we were upgrading. Inspired by the popular ruby testing tool Watir, WatiN is an open source .NET wrapper around the Internet Explorer that you can reference in your test project and use to get access [...]
