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Unit Testing Html Helpers for ASP.NET MVC

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:34:22 GMT

How to write unit tests for HTML helpers (which might use HttpContext or ViewContext) without needing a mocking framework.

Nuclex Framework on CodePlex

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:45:01 GMT

Nuclex.org has finally published their Nuclex Framework, a library of advanced building blocks for XNA game programming, as Open Source on CodePlex! Just some of the features: 3D Vector font rendering, multi-threaded particle system simulation, 3D SpriteBatch replacement, content compression using LZMA (7-Zip), graphical user interfaces with skin support, texture atlas creation, game state management, collision detection, C++' deque ported to C#, debug overlay renderer, automatic vertex declaration creator, game state management and more, all organized into neatly isolated building blocks you can pick from. The code has more than 1,400 unit tests with some assemblies achieving 100.0% test coverage and is thoroughly and completely documented.

ReSharper Discount & Extended Trial

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:00:00 GMT

I have had a few emails recently asking if I am still able to obtain the 10% discount coupons and 60 day extended trial for ReSharper

Unit testing WCF services through dependency injection

Mon, 18 May 2009 15:24:58 GMT

"When building a WCF service in an enterprise application, this service frequently depends on other services or resources. When creating unit tests for this service, we don't want to host all these other services over WCF endpoints. Instead we will most likely want to inject mock objects. In some case we may even want to inject some in-process instances of these other services."

Unit Testing Silverlight Animation

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:05:26 GMT

Examples in unit testing a Silverlight animation framework using the Silverlight unit test system.

How to Compare / Test the Equality of two Queries in SQL Server

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:01:07 GMT

Compare / Test the Equality of two Queries in SQL Server using this short T-SQL

What's an Auto Mocking Container?

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:52:50 GMT

...it's a really neat tool if you're writing a lot of unit tests and find yourself forever constructing mock objects

Test Driven Development Tips: Getting Value out of Code Coverage

Wed, 21 May 2008 01:58:45 GMT

Lies, True lies and Statistics -- Coverage tools can be misleading. So how does an organization benefit from having them? Bryan provides some great field notes on do's and don'ts for code coverage, including how tests can ruin coverage.

Unit Testing and Code Coverage - A Powerful Duo

Fri, 16 May 2008 16:55:18 GMT

Unit testing (using NUnit) and code coverage (using NCoverExplorer) make an amazing combination to not only run unit tests, but see how well your tests execute your code. All of this is made even easier by the TestDriven.net Add-in for Visual Studio.

unit testing your events

Sun, 04 May 2008 17:01:02 GMT

In this article I will show you how you can unit test your events. I will show you a simple technique that will enable you to test if your events fire exactly as often as you want them to and I will provide you with two implementations. One implementation works well with the .NET Framework 2.0 and the second one uses .NET 3.0 (anonymous methods) in order to minimize the code necessary.

Host your own Web Server in your app using IIS7 Hostable Web Core

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:27:59 GMT

IIS 7.0 includes a very cool feature that is not so well known called Hostable WebCore (HWC). This feature basically allows you to host the entire IIS functionality within your own process.

TDD: The Road so Far

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:16:02 GMT

Rob talks about traveling the TDD road, shares a few lessons learned, and points out a couple of pros and cons he's discovered along the way.

Unit Testing with Silverlight - the FULL article.

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:31:32 GMT

This is the article that ScottGu points to in http://www.dotnetkicks.com/silverlight/ScottGu_Unit_Testing_with_Silverlight , even thought it has more meat than Scott's article.

ScottGu: Unit Testing with Silverlight

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:16:02 GMT

One of the important capabilities we shipped with the Beta1 release of Silverlight 2 was a unit test harness that enables you to perform both API-level and UI-level unit testing. This testing harness is cross browser and cross platform, and can be used to quickly run and verify automated unit tests.

Moq: Why do we need yet another NET mocking framework?

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:16:02 GMT

"I've already argued in the past why I think forcing regular developers to learn and understand the difference between a stub, a fake, a "true" mock and a dynamic mock is unproductive and largely irrelevant for their TDD needs. Also, even though quite common in the mocking community, the typical record/replay model is alien to developers and introduces yet another new concept that makes the learning curve steeper than needed. "

Simplified Asp.net MVC Controller Testing with Moq

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:01:08 GMT

Want to learn how to better unit test your controllers in Asp.net MVC? In this example I go through the process of testing a controller action in asp.net MVC using Moq (but it could be easily translated into another mocking framework).

When TDD goes bad

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:46:03 GMT

Last week, at the London .NET User Group meeting, Ian Cooper talked about Test-driven development, focusing on both good and bad practices. I'm a big fan of learning from anti-patterns and mistakes of other people, so the second part of his session was very interesting to me. Here is a short list of things that Ian identified as symptoms that TDD has gone bad in a project, along with my comments...

TDD or POUT

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:31:02 GMT

Because Unit Testing is the plain-Jane progenitor of Test Driven Development, it's kind of unfair that it doesn't have an acronym of its own. After all, it's hard to get programmer types to pay attention if they don't have some obscure jargon to bandy about. UT is too awkward, besides being a state abbreviation in the U.S., so for this post (and, if it catches on, future posts as well) I'll borrow from the telco folks and call unit testing Plain Old Unit Testing.

Test Supported Development (TSD) is not Test Driven Development (TDD)

Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:38:20 GMT

"Test Supported Development" (TSD) intends to characterize the creation of tests during ANY/ALL stages of development, that is, tests are not necessarily created before their respective System Under Test (SUT), but not necessarily created as an afterthought, either...

Tell Me Your Unit Testing Pains

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:01:02 GMT

... Unfortunately, by most definitions of Unit Test, most of these tests are really integration tests.

TDD Proven Effective! Or is it?

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:46:02 GMT

So when Phil Haack announced that Research Supports the Effectiveness of TDD I was more than a little interested in seeing what the linked report actually contained.

Getting Started with Test Driven Development

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:01:46 GMT

"Few days ago I started a poll on www.KoffeeKoder.com where I asked which tool do you use for testing your applications. Surprisingly, most of the people are not using any tool for testing. This means that there are more and more applications being developed which are destined to be failed. In this article I will talk about test driven development hoping that more and more developers start using TDD and see how it benefits the application."

MVC/MVP Framework for WPF

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:16:02 GMT

Rob Eisenberg introduces MVP framework he's been developing for WPF (source code included).

Foundations of Programming - Part 5 - Unit Testing

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:31:02 GMT

Part 5 in Karl Seguins article series

Why Use Continuous Integration - Beginner's Overview

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:16:02 GMT

Good conceptual overview of why to use Continuous Integration. As a person that didn't understand much at all about it. This article sense me down the right direction of understanding.