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Testing Asynchronous Logic

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:32:23 GMT

Great article that demonstrates a refactor-friendly utility for testing objects that raise events.

Twelve Days of Code - Solution Setup

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:13:16 GMT

solution setup caveats for a .NET project

Visual Studio Keyboard Katas

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:44:04 GMT

Keyboard shortcuts in Visual Studio can make you a more productive developer. This article provides a small exercise you can incorporate into your daily routine to help memorize shortcuts.

Testing NUnit Addins from within NUnit

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:15:18 GMT

Bryan walks through an interesting technique to test nunit addins.

Creating a better Wrapper using AOP

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:31:15 GMT

If you've ever had to adapt third-party objects to your object model, here's a technique that you can use to skip the grunt work of building those wrapper classes.

How to improve testability of web applications

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:40:39 GMT

Last week I participated in the first Openspace Coding Days in London. The event was organised as a series of ad-hoc coding workshops, and I really enjoyed it. I participated in a very interesting workshop on improving testability of web UIs, that later focused particularly on Microsoft's new ASP.NET MVC framework. Here are a couple of conclusions we came to:

Configure log4net for Excel or LogParser friendly output

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:46:02 GMT

log4net is a great logging framework, but parsing the output using standard tools can be difficult. This handy article shows you a few tweaks you can make to your configuration so that your output can be read by most tools.

SQL Server - Restore a database backup via the command line

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:16:02 GMT

This article presents how an SQL Server 2005 database can be restored from the command line with one quick batch file. Ex: restore.bat LavaBlast

Legacy Projects: Test the User Interface with Selenium or WatiN

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:33:43 GMT

Got a legacy project with no unit tests? Baffled where to start? This is third in a series of posts that walk you through applying testing strategies to existing code.

Create Custom NUnit Categories

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:21:53 GMT

Great walk through on how to use NUnit Categories for your project, as well as how to declare your category attributes. Source code and compiled release available for your projects, too.

Test Driven Development Naming Conventions and Guidelines

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:31:12 GMT

New TDD and experienced TDD developers will find this list of naming conventions and guidelines useful.

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.