Last week I had the pleasure of participating in Sela Developer Practice. Before my session I sat through Gil ZIlberfeld’s session “7 steps for writing your first unit test” and I found myself thinking – what are steps I take when writing a new unit test?I’ve been writing them for so long and never noticed … Continue reading How to write a unit test
My second job was a lot of fun, I was fresh out of university and I got to play with graphics and draw cool effects on the screen using DirectX and OpenGL. Since then, I have worked in many other companies and learnt how to write better code but I have always had a place … Continue reading Learning Rust one test at a time
From time to time I get the feeling that I have too much free time and so I set myself and look for new challenges, and although the last year has been challenging to all of us I’ve still found myself committed to create another unit testing course for Pluralsight. This time it’s unit testing … Continue reading New Pluralsight course – Unit Testing C Code in CLion
The builder pattern is one of the more useful patterns out there when creation unit tests. Instead of having a huge initialization such as: You can instead create a simple user builder object for your tests that would initialize all of the object’s properties with default values (not empty) – since you do not really … Continue reading Easily create builders for your tests using Intellij IDEA
Writing unit tests can be challenging, but there is one thing that can get you on the right track – the test name. If you manage to give your test a good name – you will write a good test. Unfortunately in some (read: many) unit testing frameworks the test name must be a valid … Continue reading Better tests names using JUnit’s display names generators
Does this sounds familiar to you: You come to work early(ish) in the morning – ready to apply a new technology you’ve just learnt about – just to find out that you can’t. Your frustration grows as you understand that in order to use this “new and shiny” some adjustments must be made and what … Continue reading Using C# anonymous types to assert complex results in your unit tests
Every unit testing framework out there comes with a plethora of assertion methods – this is not necessarily a good thing. Instead of writing simple code a developer is forced to choose the correct assertion method from a seemingly endless list of methods, most of which look exactly the same! Having multiple overloaded methods with … Continue reading Assert.AreEqual in MSTest – done right
I have been “living” in the C++ world since the very beginning (of my career). But lately I’ve noticed a rising interest in C++ unit testing and even got to speaking about it in NDC Oslo. But there’s more to it than testing 10 year old C++ legacy code – it is my opinion that … Continue reading Getting started with C++ unit testing
Last week my very first Pluralsight course went live!My course on unit testing in C++ using CATCH is ready for your viewing pleasure. It’s about a topic I’m passionate about – how to write good unit tests, I’ve used Catch because I found that it helps writing good tests while avoiding many of the pitfalls … Continue reading New Pluralsight course: C++ Unit Testing Fundamentals Using Catch
It’s been a while since I’ve tried a new Unit Testing framework. It seemed that between NUnit, XUnit & MSTest I had enough to choose from. I’ve always tried to be pragmatic when choosing a test framework for a new project and when suggesting one to a new client. Although all .NET unit testing framework … Continue reading MSTest V2 – First impressions
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