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Yet another reason for loving xUnit.net

I recently noticed a thing about xUnit.net that makes me love that framework even more than before . As you probably already know, an important aspect of (unit) tests is that they can be executed in any order. xUnit.net helps you remember this since it Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2008 11:26 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Dangers of using Visual Studio 2008 Team System Code Coverage Tool for Native C++

So now you know how to get coverage reports for native C++ using Visual Studio 2008 Team System (if not - read this ). There are a few things you need to know before you get excited. First of all the only metrics you get are line and block coverage. A Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 2:18 PM by cellfish | 1 Comments
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Native C++ Code Coverage reports using Visual Studio 2008 Team System

The code coverage tool in Visual Studio 2008 Team System is quite easy to use from within the IDE unless you want code coverage for your native C++ code. In order to generate a code coverage report for native C++ you have to use the command line tools. Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 16, 2008 11:16 AM by cellfish | 4 Comments
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Refactoring for dummies

I was recently looking at a web-cast and it was not related to refactoring at all, but the presenter said something about refactoring that just blew my mind. The code he started with looked something like this: public ClassD GetD() { ClassA a = new ClassA Read More...
Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 1:13 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Exit Mocks. Enter Stubs!

Since I'm not a fan of mocks I guess my prayers have been heard. Microsoft Research will soon release a stub framework . That's right. Stubs and not mocks! It is part of Pex that I have mentioned before . And you don't need to use Pex if you don't want. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 14, 2008 11:13 AM by cellfish | 2 Comments
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Recursively delete empty directories

I recently had to find a neat way to remove all empty directories recursively on a Unix machine. In the world of UNIX you can expect to find a way to do things like this pretty easy. When I started to search for a neat way to do it (rather than reading Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 10, 2008 2:14 PM by cellfish | 4 Comments
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Use OneNote 2007 to make screen shots

The more I use OneNote 2007 , the more I like it. I find the possibility to share notebooks and also working offline with a notebook on a server very useful. But one of the really nice things is when you have to make a screen shot. Previously I've been Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 18, 2008 5:18 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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