Derik Whittaker

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• HowTo: Setting Expectations on Stubs using RhinoMocks

  When using a mocking tool like RhinoMocks, one of the features that it can provide is the ability to A) create a stub of an object and B) set expectations on Method/Property calls that are part of that method. Doing this is pretty easy, but like all things... Posted Jul 25 2007, 07:29 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .Net, Rhino Mocks, Best Practice, HowTo

• Using RhinoMocks with StructureMap to mock expected calls

  What do you do when you are writing a test for a piece of code that calls out to an ‘out of your control’ service such as a web service or email server? If you are like most of us, you simply allow your test to make the call and ‘hope’ that the service... Posted Jul 24 2007, 09:32 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Agile, .Net, StructureMap, Rhino Mocks

• Mocking a Web Service Proxy

  Today I finally had to create a mock of a web service proxy, what fun. Of course the first go at it failed because I did not think about the fact that the web service proxy is NOT serializable. This sucked, so what was I to do. Well, fortunately for me... Posted Jul 05 2007, 08:09 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, .Net, TDD, Rhino Mocks

• Rhino Mocks vs NMock: Part 1, Stubs

  Over the past few months I have really started to believe in the use of Mocks. When I first started using mocks, I started with NMock (mostly because that is what we had at work). Shortly after that I started playing around with Rhino Mocks at home. Since... Posted Jun 13 2007, 08:49 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, .Net, TDD, NMock, Rhino Mocks