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If you’re not using xUnit (and you should be), at least consider adopting the practices they have for dealing with exceptions in unit tests. From the very first release, they moved us from this: [ExpectedException(typeof(InvalidOperationException))] public
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This morning, I had a conversation with a colleague of mine who has recently started using EDD about "exposing things just for the purpose of testing." Although I have run across the odd occasion where I may need to add a get property to a class in order
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NUnit is dead! Long live xUnit.net! There are several cool features, including aspect-like extensibility for tests, but the two changes that will immediately make a difference in my day-to-day coding are: [ExpectedException] is gone. In its place is Assert.Throws<T>(
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Toby is less than happy. Due to some unforeseen circumstances , he recently lost all the code he'd been working on for the EDM project. For some unknown reason, he'd never bothered to setup a source control server and vows to not make the same mistake
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One morning, as Toby is drinking his cup of hot water, a thought strikes him - did the acceptance stories really cover everything he discovered about the domain in the first few days? Slightly worried, he finds the paragraph he so proudly wrote a while
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So it's become obvious that having a large, all-encompassing EDMSystem class was probably not the way to go. It did give us a way to express what we wanted our acceptance tests to do, but the time has come to bite the bullet and take a look at where the
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Being passionate about anything can have its drawbacks; in my zeal to give inside-out development a shot, I completely disregarded a couple principles I hold dear. SRP ? Out the window. Test-first code? Left by the side of the road. I do have a set of
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During my rather long wait for the plane in Dublin this morning, I had the opportunity to revisit Toby and his company's EDM. Unfortunately, by the time I got to some stories, I was actually in the air with no internet access and as such had to just leave
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I apologise for the lack of updates on Tony's adventures—we have been busy doing integration work for Gatineau Beta 2. Our team from Dublin has some very cool stuff going in, and I'm looking forward to the day when I can post some screenshots. In the
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Aside: I guess this post is really about mock frameworks rather than mocks, but I didn't want to break the partial alliteration I had going in the title :) A question was posed recently on one of our discussion lists about whether Rhino Mocks was a good
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During his brief 'vacation' from work, Toby got a chance to do some reading and is psyched to try out a few new ideas with what he already knows. After getting through the first boring day of employee training, he arrives the next morning and starts planning.
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I wasn't sure if I should comment on this, but the power of Agile and good programming compel me. I love TestDrive.Net . I've shown it to my group on more than one occasion and will tell anyone who will listen about it. Yes, the next version of Visual
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Last Tuesday I gave a presentation for the Engineering Excellence / Trustworty Computing day here in Dublin on Test-Driven Development and Micro-Pairing. Shocking, I know. It was a bit weird wearing a portable mic and being filmed, but a good experience
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(I wrote this about three weeks ago and never got a chance to post it. Luckily there's a small lull before I head over to CeBit later this week so I thought I should finish it) After you've been developing test-first for a while (six months+ ?), you start
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On Feb. 7th, we had a onsite technical university event here at the EPDC 5 building in Dublin. I was hoping to get some good photos of the evening to post, but they don't seem to be forthcoming. The goal was to show that Microsoft does, in fact, do development
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