Derik Whittaker

Browse by Tags

• Agile
• Development
• Development Tools
• NMock
• Rhino Mocks
• StructureMap

• Thoughts on Testing an API

  Over the past few weeks I have worked on a few products for my client that will be used as API's.  These API's will be used by either their own (external) clients or other internal departments.  Working on these projects made me think... Posted Apr 14 2008, 07:32 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Agile, .Net, TDD

• NUnit, Class Assertions or Constraint Assertions

  I finally got around to upgrading to the most recent version of NUnit recently (Yea I know, bout time) and found out that there is a new way of doing assertions.  The new model is referred to as the 'constraint' model and follows a more fluent... Posted Jan 09 2008, 06:44 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Development Tools, Agile, .Net, TDD

• StructureMap Tip: Using Concrete classes as a PluginFamily

  Have ever wanted to use a concrete class as both the the PluginFamily and Plugable (information on StructureMap's attributes here ) type in StructureMap ? I know I have, just today in fact (not the first time, but thought I would post about it this time... Posted Jul 23 2007, 05:43 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Development Tools, Agile, .Net, TDD, StructureMap

• 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