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Sharing a WebDriver across TestFixtures

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:24:16 GMT

WebDriver (also known as Selenium 2.0) is a web testing tool that is both useful and easy, which is a very rare find. If you are doing web development with ASP.NET, you need to take 30 minutes of your time and go try out WebDriver. That is all the time it will take to get you hooked. To launch a browser you need only new up a Driver object for that browser. I used to create a new Driver in my TestFixtureSetup, and then close and dispose of that in the testFixtureTearDown. However now that Firefox does not persist my windows login credentials it can be very frustrating to have to log back in for every test fixture. A solution to this problem is simply to share a single WebDriver across multiple TestFixtures. Fortunately NUnit's SetUpFixture makes this very easy to do.

NCrunch

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:29:16 GMT

Not so often, but every once in a while a new great development tool comes around. This is one of those times. Meet NCrunch. A TDD tool that will speed up your way of doing unit tests

Testing DI bootstrappers

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:10:13 GMT

While your Dependency Injection bootstrappers - being responsible for gluing your application together - are a vital part of your application, they are seldom put under test. I don't see any reason why they shouldn't be though. The cost of these tests is negligible, definitely if you compare it to the cost of the often catastrophical outcome of bugs in your bootstrappers.

New tools for your TDD arsenal

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:42:19 GMT

Alexander Beletsky shares a list of sweet new TDD tools to retrofit into your current load-out, including a tool to automatically re-run tests as you make changes to source code, a replacement for Moq, and some awesome fluent assertions.

Guilt Driven Development

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:59:32 GMT

Do you want to use Test Driven Development in your daily work but lack the necessary motivation? Do you have the nagging feeling that TDD could use more nagging to make you get things done? If this describes you, then you should definitely consider Guilt Driven Development. GDD is a powerful new technique based on one of the strongest motivating forces known to man: guilt. It works by forcing you to create promises to it and then guilts you into keeping them.

Coded UI Tests : Property "ReadOnly" cannot be retrieved ...

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:04:29 GMT

Did you ever encounter this error while trying to retrieve a property value from an AutomationElement ? I did ! Don't worry, there is always a work-around, and I've found one. In this post, we'll dig a little more into this issue and give a little example of the "Coded UI Tests" fun

Story in bddify

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:01:55 GMT

Mehdi Khalili continues his series looking at the use of bddify, the simple to use and extend BDD framework for .Net developers. In this part Mehdi looks at how you can introduce the concept of a story into your behaviour tests.

Static Code Analysis

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:52:27 GMT

The most important thing I have done as a programmer in recent years is to aggressively pursue static code analysis. Even more valuable than the hundreds of serious bugs I have prevented with it is the change in mindset about the way I view software reliability and code quality.

Status Update on SpecsFor.Mvc

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:07:04 GMT

SpecsFor.Mvc is an integration testing framework for ASP.NET MVC applications. It enables you to write integration tests that are strongly-typed, refactor-friendly, and that run under the testing framework of your choice, all while leveraging your existing unit test writing skills. SpecsFor.Mvc is a work-in-progress, so please take a moment to give me some feedback on how the API is shaping up.

Method name conventions in bddify

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:51:28 GMT

Mehdi Khalili continues his series looking in detail at his bddify framework. This part explores the naming and structure of your tests, and the two different ways (reflective and fluent) of reading scenarios.

Assert on number and text of Nhibernate queries during a unit test

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:38:28 GMT

A test helper class that permits me to assert on the number and text of the query that Nhibernate issued to the database during the test

Introduction to bddify

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:54:28 GMT

Mehdi Khalili announces the release of bddify 1.0, a BDD testing framework which makes it easy to turn Arrange Act Assert unit test into BDD tests, and kicks off a series of posts looking at the framework, starting with an introduction to its history and use.

Generate Return Values Using Lambdas in Moq

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:56:56 GMT

Mock objects and stubs created using the Moq framework are generally used to inject dependencies with expectations that define fixed results. For more complex scenarios, lambda expressions can be used to generate results based on provided arguments.

You write too many tests and open too many bugs

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:00:30 GMT

Microsoft's Liam Price shares his thoughts on the problems associated with writing too many tests as well as with testers opening too many bugs. Seems like another case of "less is more", when it comes to testing.

Just because you can test it, doesn't mean you should

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:15:19 GMT

Samson Tanrena shares his thoughts on why choosing what to test, rather than simply testing all code, is an important step in shipping your product.

Web Testing with MbUnit and WatiN: Testing Asynchronous AJAX calls

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:39:41 GMT

Concluding his look at combining MbUnit and Watin to produce clean web integration tests, Yann Trevin looks at testing asynchronous calls

SpecsFor.com Launched, SpecsFor 2.2 Released!

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:25:35 GMT

I'm pleased to announce that SpecsFor.com is now live. I've also shipped a new version of SpecsFor that simplifies the painful task of creating multiple mocks of the same type for injection into IEnumerable parameters.

Using QUnit with ASP.NET MVC Razor Layouts

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:25:35 GMT

QUnit is a Javascript unit testing framework. The post explains how to use QUnit with ASP.NET MVC Razor Layout.

Unit Testing Http Handlers and Auto Mocking with the Testable Pattern

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:41:28 GMT

This post first describes how to implement IHttpHandler in a test friendly way and then moves on to a tutorial on Dependency Injection, the Testable pattern and Auto Mocking

Two Things to Make Testing Fun

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:46:14 GMT

How many of you actually enjoy writing tests, probably not a lot, right? Even though you know testing is important. For some of us, it just doesn't feel right to spend time on creating tests than working on our world class application. I will not argue the merits of testing here, but I will tell you two things that will make testing fun:

SpecsFor 2.0 Released!

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:24:31 GMT

The newest version of the SpecsFor behavior-driven development framework is out with additional functionality to eliminate common points of testing friction. With a single NuGet package, you now have everything you need to start writing clean test cases. Read on to see how much easier writing tests could be.

Chutzpah 1.3.0 Released

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:35:59 GMT

A new release of Chutzpah - A JavaScript test runner. This release adds support for the Jasmine test framework.

the recorder encountered a wrong control while recording the last acti

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:00:08 GMT

One more quick post on Coded UI tests recording issue. Today, the coded UI test builder tool said to me "The recorder encountered a wrong control while recording the last action." ! After some search in my app, I found out that it'is related to a ScrollViewer in a TabControl. In this post we'll see how I solved it.

Testing Entity Framework Applications - Part 2

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:58:34 GMT

In part 2 of this series by Thomas Weller, he shows us how to mock test data using the commercial TypeMock library. In his next article, he will show how the same can be achieved using the free ndbunit library.

Testing Entity Framework Applications - Part 1

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:58:34 GMT

Thomas Weller walks us through some of the issues with writing integration tests for applications using Entity Framework, and offers up some solutions for stubbing the data layer.