Derik Whittaker

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• Talking Mocks at TriNug, what a great time, what a great group

  Last night I had the opportunity to do my 'Taking your tests to the next level with Mocks' session to the TriNug user group. I would first like to say thanks to Doug Wilson and his entire group. They had a great turn out (45ish people) and they... Posted Nov 13 2008, 06:36 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Development, TDD, Rhino Mocks, Presentations

• Testing your IoC Bindings

  One thing I like to do when I am using a IoC (Inversion of Control) container is to create simple test that ensure that my objects have been wired up correctly and can be created via the IoC container. I know this may seem like overkill, but I feel that... Posted Sep 10 2008, 06:53 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Development, TDD, Best Practice

• RhinoMocks new Arrange, Act, Assert does not seem to work under MSTest....odd

  -- UPDATE See text in red below -- Ok, I am in NO way trying to say that this is either Rhino's issue or MSTest. I am simply blogging this with the intent that someone can shed some insight as to what may be going on. Although, since I know that the... Posted Jul 23 2008, 10:38 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Development, TDD, Rhino Mocks

• 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

• App.Config issues when running NUnit via Resharper

  ***** 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... Posted Mar 25 2008, 08:43 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Agile, TDD

• Backing in Unit Tests into an existing project

  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... Posted Oct 09 2007, 07:35 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Agile, Methodology, TDD, Opinion

• Why I believe IN and WRITE unit tests

  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... Posted Oct 01 2007, 07:27 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Agile, Methodology, TDD, Opinion, Featured

• 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

• Doh, there are 4 hours I will never get back

  Today, I was working on one of my first ever (actually, it is my 2nd) WCF services. This service was meant to be pretty simple, 1 method with 4 param's. It should not take that long, or will it. To get the service started, I began by writing the library... Posted Jul 17 2007, 08:28 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with no comments Filed under: Development, TDD, Humor

• What I'm Learning

  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... Posted Jun 08 2007, 05:18 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with no comments Filed under: Development, Development Tools, Agile, TDD, StructureMap, NHibernate

• Technical Debt, How we accumulate it, and how we can reduce it

  All software projects will amass some amount of technical debt. This is not a necessarily bad thing; it is just he cost of doing business. As developers the only thing we can do is try to control/limit the amount of technical debt we build up. If you... Posted May 25 2007, 09:03 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with no comments Filed under: Development, Methodology, TDD

• Learning to use Mocks and the power they provide

  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... Posted May 23 2007, 06:54 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with no comments Filed under: Development, Agile, Methodology, TDD

• Handling Events in Unit Tests with anonymous delegates

  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... Posted Apr 23 2007, 12:26 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Agile, TDD

• Options Wanted: How do I handle my Mocks

  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... Posted Apr 17 2007, 07:35 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Agile, Methodology, TDD, NMock