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Today started off in a bad, bad way. Because of some issues I had earlier in the week with my source control repository (SCR) I was doing a ton of work offline. Today I was able to regain access to my SCR I decided to do a full get. I was fully expecting...
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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...
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***** Update ***** This issue is directly related to a #R 4 EAP issue. I was using build 755 and this was an issue. As of build 762, this is no longer an issue. ******************** Today I encountered some odd behavior when trying to run some tests against...
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Many times during our development duties we have to read through code segments to figure out the desired intent of a feature. Today I was doing just this. There is a new feature that I need to implement and to do so, I needed to walk through...
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Recently I was asked about backing in unit tests into an existing project. In particular I was asked A) was possible and B) is it worth it. In short my answers to both these are Yes and Yes. However, backing in unit tests is not without its challenges...
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In my last post I think I struck a cord with some people in my post 'Unit tests taking too much time'. My intent was NOT to sound like an elitist Agilist or any else of that nature. My intent was simply to put a post out there about the misperception...
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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...
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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...
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This post is in response to Sam Gentile's post over at code better I'm Learning Rhino Mocks NHibernate StructureMap Policy Injection Blocks Log4Ne t (yea I know, what took so long. Answer, last few apps use the Logging App Block) MonoRail (about to start...
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Up until a few months ago I had never even attempted to use mocks ( NMock , RhinoMock , etc). Every time I would read about Mocking I thought to myself, this is kinda cool, but seems to be a waste of energy. At the time I saw Mocks as only a way to create...
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Recently a co-worker of mine (Lou, smart guy… (Lou, your shameless plug)) needed to test a UI control that raised an event upon certain conditions. In order to handle this event he needed to have some way to trap that it was raised. The solution he came...
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I am looking for feedback from the group. I am pretty new to using mocks for my unit tests and I am not sure what the standard approach in the community for usage of mocks in regards to how/where they are stored in your test application. After refactoring...
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Ok, so maybe I am the last person on the planet to learn about this new attribute, but oh well. Last week a co-worker of mine came across this attribute when doing some research and both of us just kinda looked at each other and smiled. See, for a long...
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One of the things I often hear when I am preaching the gospel of writing Unit Test's is that I have so much existing code, I don’t know where to start. In order to help others that have this dilemma I thought I would put together a simple multi-step plan...
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