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Installers provide a consistent way of implementing automated setup logic for an application, and as I previously wrote, they also work admirably well for setting up test fixtures . The BCL, however, only contains a limited amount of pre-built Installers...

It's no secret that I prefer unit tests over integration tests. Whenever it's possible to replace an external resource dependency with a test double, I do that, but sometimes, you need to test the resource access component itself: If you have a data access...

Now that both of my TechEd sessions are over, I've had some request for the sample code that I demonstrated at both sessions. The sample code I used at the interactive talk on TDD is attached to this post. The code I demonstrated at my talk on manual...

As previously announced , I'll be giving two talks at TechEd Developers in Barcelona next week. The second of these is a so-called Chalk Talk; an interactive session on TDD in real life. Since this talk is interactive, it will be up to the audience...