Writing Maintainable Unit Tests
February 26, 2020I’m very proud to announce that my first video course has been published on Udemy. This course teaches software developers how to write maintainable and readable unit tests. It...
Read more ...The Test Pyramid
November 7, 2019In the previous blog post, we touched on two different categories of automated tests, namely solitary and sociable tests. We also mentioned that in order to build maintainable a...
Read more ...A Taxonomy Of Tests
October 8, 2019It’s more than fair to say that the terminology used in the world of automated tests can be a bit overwhelming. Software people have uncovered all sorts of tests in a wide varie...
Read more ...Fast Feedback
September 3, 2019Test-Driven Development is a discipline that exists for almost two decades now. Unfortunately, to this very day, it is still not without controversy. Most professional developer...
Read more ...Blaming Mocks For Bad Design
December 18, 2018A while back I stumbled upon this talk titled Built-in Fake Objects. After I’ve watched the first 20 minutes or so, I was so worked up that I almost threw away my iPad just out ...
Read more ...Listening to the Vital Signs of TDD
November 8, 2018People who know me personally know that I like to go for a long run on a regular basis. I sit and work at a desk all day. So as part of the work I do, labouring the codes, I go ...
Read more ...An Observation about TDD
September 9, 2011To me, developers that are not applying TDD practices during their day-to-day job always seem more in a hurry than developers that do apply red-green-refactor. In their hurry, t...
Read more ...AutoTest.NET
November 30, 2010I just want to quickly point out a tool that I’ve been playing with for a couple of days now, named AutoTest.NET. Its an open-source tool that originates from a popular tool in ...
Read more ...Behaviors with MSpec
February 26, 2010In my previous posts, I showed the syntax for context/specifications using Machine.Specifications (or MSpec for short) and how to use an auto mocking container in conjunction wi...
Read more ...MSpec and Auto Mocking
February 23, 2010In my previous post, I explained how to get started with Machine.Specifications (or MSpec for short) and showed you how the syntax for context/specifications looks like when usi...
Read more ...Getting Started With Machine.Specifications (MSpec)
February 19, 2010Its been a while since I evaluated and evolved my approach to BDD. The way I’ve been doing BDD up until now is described in this blog post which goes way back to 2008. Everyone ...
Read more ...Don't Sell Out on the Context, Dude
December 31, 2008I’ve been reading a lot of code lately. When I’m doing this, I find it very important to have some unit tests that makes it easier for me to comprehend the actual production cod...
Read more ...Refining Context/Specification BDD using Rhino Mocks 3.5
October 25, 2008Earlier this year, I wrote this blog post about exploring Behavior-Driven Development as a better way of doing Test-Driven Development. In this post, I spoke about how to organi...
Read more ...It's the little things
July 17, 2008A while ago, I wrote a blog post regarding Test Data Builders Refined. Earlier this week, I wrote a very simple base class that provides an implicit cast operator for the builde...
Read more ...Active Conventions with NDepend - Part Deux
July 2, 2008I want to put out a short sequel to my previous post on Active Conventions with NDepend. Also make sure to read Patrick Smacchia's follow-up if your interested. As you may or ma...
Read more ...Test Data Builders Refined
April 26, 2008Last year, I blogged about Test Data Builders here and here. I still use them heavily in my unit tests for creating objects with test data. Heck, I also use this pattern for flu...
Read more ...Behavior Driven Development on ALT.NET
March 1, 2008There's a really interesting discussion going on at the ALT.NET user group about Behavior Driven Development. This post from Jimmy Bogard really hit home. It clearly describes B...
Read more ...Exploring BDD style specifications as a better TDD
February 3, 2008You might think that I suffer from a severe case of acronymitis judging from the title of this post, but the only thing I suffer from right now is a terrible cold. Anyway, I'm c...
Read more ...AutoMocking Container
January 13, 2008When writing unit tests that involve interaction based testing, you most likely end up using one of the mocking frameworks out there. The mocking framework I'm using is Rhino Mo...
Read more ...Test Data Builder
December 23, 2007A while ago, I blogged about using Test Data Builders as opposed to the Object Mother pattern. Here are some links to additional tips and tricks: Tricks with Test Data Builders...
Read more ...Test Data Builder versus Object Mother
September 30, 2007When writing unit tests, I frequently have an issue with creating objects that contain some test data. One approach is to call the constructor of the class at hand in every test...
Read more ...Article on Dependency Injection
September 29, 2007Mark Monster has written an excellent article on Dependency Injection in the newest .NET Magazine (it's no MSDN magazine, but hey, its free of charge). Nonetheless, there are tw...
Read more ...Bug Driven Development
September 24, 2007Are you doing Test-Driven Development or Bug Driven Development? From my experiences, test-driven development seems to slow you down at the beginning of a project. This isn't en...
Read more ...TDD through the eyes of Jeremy D. Miller
July 23, 2007Another excellent post on TDD by Jeremy D. Miller. The following quote is something that needs to be up on the wall: DO learn how RhinoMocks works or DO NOT use it. Seriously...
Read more ...NUnit vs Team System Unit Test
May 15, 2007At work there's a discussion going on whether we will choose NUnit or Team System Unit Test for our unit tests. Currently we have about 1000+ unit tests written in NUnit and we ...
Read more ...NUnit 2.4 constraints
April 13, 2007The forthcoming release of NUnit 2.4 supports a constraint-based syntax for assertions. Don't worry, the old syntax (classic model) is still going to be available for a long tim...
Read more ...The Underlying Problems of TDD in the .NET World
March 8, 2007This post of Jeremy D. Miller hits it right on the head: In .NET development, and especially ASP.NET WebForms development, you often have to go out of your way to create testa...
Read more ...To test or ... to test?
October 7, 2006I recently came across the .NET Mock Objects project. This framework supplies mock implementations of the ADO.NET generic interfaces like IDataReader, IDbConnection, etc. (curre...
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Writing Maintainable Unit Tests
February 26, 2020
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The Test Pyramid
November 7, 2019
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A Taxonomy Of Tests
October 8, 2019
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Fast Feedback
September 3, 2019
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Debugability Considered Useful
January 3, 2019
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Latest articles
Writing Maintainable Unit Tests
February 26, 2020
The Test Pyramid
November 7, 2019
A Taxonomy Of Tests
October 8, 2019
Fast Feedback
September 3, 2019