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• Materials from HDC09 - Testing With Mocks Talk

  Below is a link to download the Testing With Mocks lightning round talk that I gave at the Heartland Developers Conference this last week. In order to get the samples to run you will need to have TypeMock Isolator installed. If you do not own a license Read More... Posted Sunday, October 18, 2009 11:07 AM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: Tools, TDD, Alt.Net, MVC, .NET, Testing, Events, Agile, Mocks, Patterns and Practices

• TypeMock 5.3.5 - WasCalledWithArguments

  I normally do not blog bile by reposting another sites news, but this news is rather importnat in regards to TDD with Isolator. I use Rhino Mocks 80% of the time for mocking, but that last 20% is Isolator. Why 20% - this is the real tough stuff to test. Read More... Posted Monday, September 21, 2009 8:17 AM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: TDD, Alt.Net, Continuous Integration, Mocks, Dependency Injection

• Unit Testing you Container Dependencies

  When developing with an inversion of control container (I use Windsor ) its sometimes difficult to detect if your instances in your container are creatable or not. A lot of times this is determined when you run the app, you’ll get an exception informing Read More... Posted Friday, July 10, 2009 8:25 AM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: TDD, Dependency Injection

• Finding App_Data Programmatically

  While writing some code I needed to be able to access the the App_Data directory in my ASPNET MVC app. Doing this usually involves a Server.MapPath, but this wont work for my unit test. Here’s how you can get around it:   var appDataPath = (string)AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetData("DataDirectory") Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 14, 2009 4:20 PM from this.Reflect() | 0 Comments Filed under: TDD, MVC, .NET, Testing, Continuous Integration, Agile

• Featured in the Spaghetti Code Podcast

  I was recently interviewed on the Spaghetti Code Podcast, hosted by Microsoft’s Jeff Brand . Jeff and I talked about Mocking and how it relates to the development process, testing process and your day to day coding. You can download the files from the Read More... Posted Monday, April 06, 2009 9:51 PM from this.Reflect() | 0 Comments Filed under: TDD, Alt.Net, .NET, Design Patterns, Agile, Mocks, Dependency Injection, Architecture

• Twin Cities Code Camp 6 – Testing with Mocks – Code and Presentation

  As I stated in the session “Testing with Mocks”, I would post the code and presentation to this blog. Download the code and the presentation as a zip file below. Thank you for coming to the talk! If you have any questions please let me know. *NOTE* You Read More... Posted Saturday, April 04, 2009 1:48 PM from this.Reflect() | 0 Comments Filed under: TDD, Events, Conferences, Mocks

• How to Use Rhinos AssertWasNotCalled

  At times in the testing process you want to make sure that a certain method on a mocked object _does_not_ get called. For example, perhaps you’re performing some validation on a object and the object fails the validation rules. At this point you’d want Read More... Posted Monday, March 30, 2009 10:10 AM from this.Reflect() | 0 Comments Filed under: TDD, Alt.Net, ASP.NET, .NET

• Unit Testing JsonResult in MVC

  Unit testing ActionResults is fairly easy yet JsonResults can pose a problem. I’ve seen a few ways to do this and they just seemed like “too much” to me. So here’s a way that I’ve devised that works very well. Its sort of has a “hack” feel to it, but Read More... Posted Friday, March 20, 2009 1:02 PM from this.Reflect() | 0 Comments Filed under: TDD, Alt.Net, MVC, Testing

• AHK Script for Enabling/Disabling Spark Intellisense

  As stated here the Spark View Engine’s Visual Studio Integration does not support the ReSharper intellisense code complete mode. This is a HUGE issue for me as I use a  lot of ReSharper templates. Turning off the ReSharper code completion slows me Read More... Posted Monday, March 02, 2009 2:30 PM from this.Reflect() | 0 Comments Filed under: TDD, Alt.Net, MVC, Productivity, .NET

• An Exercise in Managing the Measurements

  I’m a firm believer in the phrase: “What gets measured gets managed.” When it comes to unit testing code coverage is something we can use to measure how much of our code is under test. By no means does this mean that the code that is under test is actually Read More... Posted Thursday, February 19, 2009 8:33 AM from this.Reflect() | 0 Comments Filed under: TDD, Alt.Net, .NET, Testing, Continuous Integration

• Excluding Integration Tests from your Automated Build

  A simple tip to exclude certain tests from running during your automated build. In this scenario we have a bunch of tests inside of a particular DLL. Inside of these tests we have a folder that is for “ integration tests ”. These tests are run usually Read More... Posted Monday, February 09, 2009 6:43 AM from this.Reflect() | 0 Comments Filed under: TDD, Testing, Continuous Integration

• My ReSharper Templates

  Recently when working with some co-workers I was flying through some menus and whipping out some code at a breakneck speed and a couple asked how I was doing it so quickly. Simple – Resharper’s live templates. I’m surprised I haven't posted these before, Read More... Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 5:17 PM from this.Reflect() | 0 Comments Filed under: TDD, Productivity, Agile

• RhinoMocks 3.5 AAA Model

  Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; Read More... Posted Friday, August 22, 2008 5:58 AM from Nermin's .Net | 0 Comments Filed under: Mock, Unit Testing, TDD, C#

• Fluent Stubs

  Refactoring has become a common practice amongst many developers I work with. Why refactor? Well, first it takes the pressure of off design phase of project in a sense. You do not have spend ton of time upfront designing the code and assuring that you Read More... Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 6:20 AM from Nermin's .Net | 0 Comments Filed under: Mock, Unit Testing, TDD, C#

• Scott shares some thoughts about MVC framework for ASP.NET on his web site

  Well, it seems that man himself has spoken about details of this upcoming framework. He has given us a timeline as well as what the framework encompasses. What I find interesting is that it seems that Microsoft is not just building a "copy" Read More... Posted Monday, October 15, 2007 10:33 AM from Nermin's .Net | 0 Comments Filed under: TDD, MVC, ASP.NET