A while back I had a build script used to build a project from its sources and run automatic tests on that code. Each time a new test assembly was added I needed to add a line to my build script to run that assembly. From time to time I forgot to update my build … Continue reading #Nose 1.1 Released
If you haven’t read the other posts in this trilogy - you might what to have a look at them about now: Why fake is better then mock How to create a fake object Let’s begin the third part of this tutorial where I’ll explain what to do when we need to test that a … Continue reading Getting started with Fake Objects – Part 3: Verify that a call has been made
One of the reason I used to prefer NUnit was that I could run my tests as x86 or x64 depending on what I needed. I was always strange that Microsoft unit testing framework didn’t have this ability. Luckily for use it seems that Microsoft heard our pain and decided to enable us to run … Continue reading VS2010 Tip – How to run unit tests in 64bit process
Running unit tests can take some time – at Typemock we have about 4,000 unit tests and running them takes 15 minuets. If you always wished it to take half the time (or a quarter of the time) – wait no more! Visual Studio 2010 has a hidden feature called parallel test execution – which … Continue reading VS2010 tip: How to run unit tests in parallel
In the previous post I’ve explained (briefly) what are fake objects and why they should be used – if you haven’t read it yet – I suggest you do so now. In a nutshell fake objects are used to break dependencies in unit tests to make the test faster, predictable and enable you to test … Continue reading Getting started with Fake Objects – Part 2: How to create a fake object
If you’ve been writing unit tests for a short while you might have noticed that writing good unit tests is hard. The object under test can be hard to create because it require dependencies that you just cannot provide or some complicated environment is needed just to make the test pass. When writing a unit … Continue reading Getting started with Fake Objects – Part 1: why fake is better then mock
It is always nice to hear when a fellow developer succeeds and what makes these posts even better is the fact that they also contain valuable tips as well. Lessons learned from an Agile project (David Tchepak): Dave^2 writes about an agile project he’s been part of for the last 18 months - and he … Continue reading Links: Being Successful with Agile and unit testing
Today when writing tests for a new project built using VS2010 I had an interesting problem: NUnit would not run my unit tests because the assembly that contained my unit tests was compiled using a newer version of the .NET runtime. There are several solutions to solve this issue from downgrading my project to use … Continue reading How to run NUnit tests created with VS2010 and .NET 4
If you the Israel .NET Developers User Group (IDNDUG) and you’d like to learn more about unit testing you can view my presentation here. I talked about unit tests and how to write good unit tests in the first session. I had a lot of fun and I hope that so did my audience. http://docs.google.com/present/embed?id=dd3zxkh_192g6gkd4gc&interval=5 … Continue reading Real world unit testing presentation
Not being able to unit test an essential scenario is one of the reasons developers stop unit testing their code. In fact most of the time when a team decides not to use TDD (Test Driven Development) is because it seems as if they won’t be able to test the production code using unit tests. … Continue reading How to unit test “un-testable” code (in a nutshell)
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