Derik Whittaker

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• Mocks vs. Stubs and my 'Ah ha' moment

  Last night on twitter Aaron Jenson made the statement 'moq's expect method needs to be renamed' 'setting the expectation is not what you should be doing. you don't *care* if it's called.' I then started a short conversation... Posted Oct 21 2008, 07:20 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, Rhino Mocks

• Using the RhinoAutoMocker that is part of StructureMap 2.5

  One of the new features that is part of the next release of StructureMap 2.5 is a AutoMocking Container. What is an AutoMocking Container, well per Jacob over at Eleutian an AutoMocker is AutoMockingContainer is simply a IoCContainer with a custom facility... Posted Oct 05 2008, 01:58 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Development Tools, Agile, TDD, StructureMap, Rhino Mocks

• My first impressions with Rhino Mocks 3.5 (beta)

  I finally got around to downloading and playing with the forthcoming release of Rhino Mocks v3.5 (more info here from Ayende). The major changes to this version is that the syntax has been revamped to allow for the new language features in .Net 3.5. ... Posted Jun 27 2008, 08:23 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: Development Tools, Agile, TDD, Rhino Mocks

• New Release of Rhino Mocks

  As you may or may not know, I am a huge fan of Rhino Mocks. Well Ayende has put out Rhino Mocks 3.2 today. Check out more information on it here . You can download it here . Posted Aug 13 2007, 08:17 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with no comments Filed under: Agile, TDD, Rhino Mocks

• 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