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Test readability

I read this excellent post on test readability a few days ago. I like the way he shows how he refactors a test for readability but personally I would have written the example test a little bit differently. First of all I would have added another extension Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 11, 2009 9:23 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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When to write passing tests before fixing a bug

If you're a BDD/TDD practitioner you're probably used to create a failing test whenever you have a new bug reported and you want to fix it. But sometimes a situation arises where you have to do the opposite; creating a passing test before you fix a bug. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 1:45 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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CAT - Continuous Acceptance Testing

A few days ago I wrote about Continuous Unit Testing (CUT) and why the need for CUT was a sign of other problems . The last days I have been thinking about CUT a little bit more and I still find CUT questionable but there is another thing - CAT (Continuous Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 17, 2009 10:17 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Why slow unit tests are a bad smell:

Earlier I promised to elaborate on why slow unit tests are a sign of problems (or a smell if you like). So here it goes. The first thing I would like to look at is when the complete test suite takes too long to run to be part of a tight TDD-loop. If it Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 10:07 AM by cellfish | 2 Comments
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CUT - Continuous Unit Testing

During the Christmas holidays I read about something I would like to call CUT (Continuous Unit Testing). CUT is a technique where you run your unit tests in the background all the time rather than after each time you compile (I'm assuming TDD/BDD is being Read More...
Posted Monday, January 05, 2009 10:05 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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My new favorite .Net unit test framework

I recently had a chance to really sink my teeth into xUnit.net . Since I've been stuck with CPPUnit for quite some time and working with xUnit.net was a relief. Compared to NUnit I find xUnit much easier and convenient to work with (and compared with Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 10:53 AM by cellfish | 1 Comments
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I don't like Mock objects

When looking at BDD and TDD examples it is very common to see the use of mock objects in the code. This however strikes me as a little bit strange since I think you should use stubs and not mocks when working with BDD/TDD. A mock is basically a stub with Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 24, 2008 10:44 PM by cellfish | 8 Comments
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Yet another unit test framework for .Net released

Version 1.0 of xUnit.net has been released . So do we need another unit test framework? And I think the answer is yes . There are a number of things that I've found a little bit weird in NUnit and with xUnit.net they have been removed. I definitely think Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 24, 2008 8:09 AM by cellfish | 1 Comments
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