Derik Whittaker

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• Testing is hard but debugging just sucks A$$

  In my last post ( here ) I was giving a wrap up of the Mocking session I recently did at TriNug . In that post I gave some of the reasons (sorry, I meant excuses) people gave for not doing any type of automated testing during their dally development ritual... Posted Nov 14 2008, 05:58 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 22 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, TDD, Opinion, Rant

• 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

• 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

• They all have one thing in common.....

  Test first Test during Test after Answer, Test. No matter what style of testing you believe in, they all share one common trait. They all test your code. So, what is the point of this post you may ask? Simple. To me, it does not matter how your tests... Posted Mar 18 2008, 06:07 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, TDD, Opinion

• Sound of one man testing

  Recently I was chatting with a friend of mine and he asked if a single developer could be successful following TDD on a team that does not follow TDD. My simple answer was YES, they can. But there are a few things you must consider..... How can they make... Posted Feb 18 2008, 05:30 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, TDD, Opinion

• Whitebox vs Blackbox testing (location of unit tests)

  Over on the Alt.Net mailing list ( here ) the topic of where to put your unit tests was the hot topic a few days ago. This is a topic that I have debated with various people over the past few years. With all the debates I have had, it is clear to me that... Posted Jan 28 2008, 05:38 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, TDD, Opinion, Best Practice

• 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 4 comment(s) Filed under: Development Tools, Agile, .Net, 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

• 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

• 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

• Exellent TDD Post by Jeremy @ Codebetter.com

  Jeremy always has something insightful to say, and this is no exception. Check out his TDD post about newbies on projects. http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller/archive/2007/07/22/you-re-a-tdd-newbie-on-a-project-team-with-jeremy-what-do-you-do.aspx... Posted Jul 23 2007, 07:28 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, TDD, Shout-Out

• 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