September 2008 - Posts

Every Day, Every Way, Better and Better
30 September 08 05:37 PM | jons | (Comments Off)   

Introduction In my last post , I introduced the basics of inversion of control containers. You should read that post before you read this one. This post will not make any sense if you do not read that post . Done reading that post , already? OK. Let's Read More...

Attachment(s): CSLAUnitTestingWithIOC.zip

I Know Nothing, but my Inversion of Control Container Knows All
30 September 08 04:08 PM | jons | 1 Comments   

[Author's Note: This is the first of a series of posts on inversion of control containers. This is in support of my presentation at the Fall 2008 Twin Cities Code Camp .] Introduction In my last post , I covered one way of faking the database input/output Read More...

Pretensions of Database Grandeur
29 September 08 09:48 AM | jons | 2 Comments   

Introduction We are now at the point where we need to deal with the problems of testing the database input/output logic without actually ever touching the database. That is, we want to make sure that the CRUD operations (create, read, update, and delete) Read More...

Attachment(s): CSLAUnitTesting.zip

Incremental Remediation
29 September 08 09:15 AM | jons | (Comments Off)   

I was asked recently who was my intended audience for my blog. My response was, me! Yes it is all about me.  What I mean by this is that I find that I do not truly understand a concept until I have written it down in a form that I could communicate Read More...

Spoofing the CSLA Identity and Principal
25 September 08 03:26 PM | jons | (Comments Off)   

Introduction This is a note that describes how to test the aspects of the application that are dependent upon authorization.  The typical CSLA application has a lot of functionality that is dependent upon the user identity and particularly the security Read More...

Take a Tour of the Sample CSLA Unit Testing Solution
24 September 08 05:55 PM | jons | (Comments Off)   

Introduction This is another of a series of "lessons learned" blog entries. This entry is the second of series of entries that will describe the unit testing of CSLA applications. The approach covered in this series is certainly not the only Read More...

Attachment(s): CSLAUnitTesting.zip

The Specifics of Unit Testing CSLA Applications
24 September 08 05:06 PM | jons | (Comments Off)   

Introduction This is another of a series of "lessons learned" blog entries. This entry is the second of series of entries that will describe the unit testing of CSLA applications. The approach covered in this series is certainly not the only Read More...

Unit Testing CSLA Applications
24 September 08 04:59 PM | jons | (Comments Off)   

Introduction This is another one of those "lessons learned" blog entries. This entry is the first of series of entries that will describe the unit testing of CSLA applications. The approach covered in this series is certainly not the only way Read More...

Modified Unit Testing
22 September 08 03:37 PM | jons | (Comments Off)   

[Note: this is a revision of the original post to fix the formatting of the code snippets.  I am not sure what happened, it looked fine in the preview but not so good on the actual web page.] I just rolled off of a project for a client.  One Read More...