I’ve just started yet another pet project and wanted to pick a unit testing framework (.NET). On a soon-to-regret whim I’m tried googling “NUnit vs. XUnit” and read the first 10 posts I got. They were informative and mostly correct, unfortunately all completely missed the one big difference between those two excellent unit testing frameworks… … Continue reading The real difference between NUnit and XUnit
Exactly one year and four months passed since my first try at fixing the state of asserts in NUnit. You can read all about it in my post – One assert to rule them all.My intent was to create one assert that would automatically choose the right way to check test result (I didn’t invet … Continue reading AssertHelper V1 released
Today I presented the topic of unit testing (surprise, surprise) and Test Driven Development for windows pone applications. I’d like to thank those who managed to arrive to the meeting despite the weather – it was a pleasure. My talk was at the second part of the meeting - right after Eyal who showed how … Continue reading Test Drive your windows phone application
From time to time I find myself writing the same code – a task I find boring, tedious and error prone(I’m not talking about code duplication – which should be eliminated as the evil it is) as the lazy developer that I am I prefer to let a tool perform these tasks for me. Today … Continue reading Create live templates using Resharper
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
Any project that uses unit tests gets to the stage where running all of the tests takes a lot of time. Even if you manage to keep your test suite in a manageable size From time to time a developer would “forget” to run all the tests before commit and break the build. One solution … Continue reading nCrunch review – TDD on steroids
I can't believe they implemented this way – was the first thought on my mind…The method in question is part of the new(er) NUnit’s constraint based model specifically the one used to assert a property value.Before we dive deeper a few words on the constraint based model:constraint based modelMost unit testing framework have similar way … Continue reading Making string based method strongly typed
The problem with unit tests is that they keep on breaking…Obviously that’s not entirely correct, nevertheless I had the pleasure of hearing the sentence above numerous times. It’s true – unit tests do tend to fail and we prefer that they fail only when a regression occurs – when something that used to work stopped … Continue reading Creating robust tests with Isolator V7
With the new NUnit release (v2.6) introduce a new feature called Action Attributes which means that now NUnit has rolled out it’s own mini-AOP capabilities. In the past SetUp and TearDown where used to perform actions before and/or after a test run, they worked well enough but were limited to running certain operation only on … Continue reading NUnit’s new Action Attributes is AOP to your unit tests
At work we use Typemock Isolator for all of our Isolation/Mocking needs. Lately I’ve noticed that my co-workers do not like to use verify. One of the reasons they prefer not to use it is that sometime Verify error messages leave much to be desired. There are a few simple tricks that helps Isolator help … Continue reading Supercharge Isolate.Verify
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