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Friday, November 20, 2009 6:06 PM

DTACM (D.C.'s Test Automation Coding Manifesto)

I find myself getting more and more frustrated whenever I see test code that is best described as quick and dirty. Now, sometimes I do acknowledge that the world is not perfect (has never been and will never be) so I realize that the following is really
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 5:51 PM

All the wonderful colors of code coverage

I'd like to share my colors with you: R G B Coverage Not Touched Area 230 128 165 Coverage Partially Touched Area 191 210 249 Coverage Touched Area 180 228 180 These are the colors I prefer for code coverage in Visual Studio and if you've used the first
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 3:04 AM

EMTF 2.0 Beta released

It's been a couple of months since I first blogged about EMTF . Since then I've been busy refining and extending the framework and I'm happy to announce that the beta release of version 2.0 is finally done! Special thanks to Josh Poley since a lot of
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 6:07 PM

Adding and removing websites to/from security zones programmatically (C#)

When you're searching binging for how to add or remove websites to/from IE's security zones you'll find tons of samples all showing how to achieve this by creating and deleting registry keys. While doing so will probably work just fine in most scenarios,
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Monday, June 08, 2009 3:00 AM

HTTP debugging for Silverlight developers (Mac OS X edition)

Many posts have been written about how to debug problems with issuing HTTP requests from Silverlight applications, particularly in the context of web services and WCF (see for example Debugging Web Service Usage in Silverlight 2 or Faults and Exceptions
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Sunday, May 31, 2009 11:25 PM

Back from Portland Code Camp

The Portland Code Camp yesterday was a blast. In fact, it was one of the best (un)conferences I've been to so far with a wide variety of topics and I'd like to share my personal Top 3 Best of Portland Code Camp 2009 (but keep in mind that that's 3 out
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 8:40 PM

Creating an API testing framework 101

Writing a fully featured API testing solution is a lot of work. You have to deal with things like test case management, integration with code coverage tools or test execution on server farms. However, the core of a (reflection-based) API testing framework
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Monday, February 16, 2009 11:45 PM

Introducing EMTF

A while ago a needed to do what I like to call quick and dirty testing , i.e. getting as much test coverage as possible in a given period of time. To make things worse, I was working on a client-server feature requiring a bit of setup in order to work
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 11:15 PM

The ultimate ExceptionAssert.Throws() method

A while ago I published a post titled Pimp your VSTT exception tests in which I pointed out some disadvantages of VSTT's declarative approach to testing for exceptions and provided an alternative. I recently gave this some more thought while writing some
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 7:00 PM

It's all about systems - even if you're testing only a component

Earlier this year I bought a brand new computer and wanted to play what turned out to be one of my favorite games of all times. However, it also turned out that this new computer of mine came with a pretty bad graphics card. It did work but the performance
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 8:22 AM

MIX09 announced

Don't make any plans for March 18-20 next year (or cancel the plans you've already made) since that's when MIX will happen once again in Las Vegas. The MIX09 website is already online and if you liked what we showed you this year you will love the cool
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 2:05 AM

I Am The Seattle Code Camp (And So Can You!)

I have to admit something embarrassing: I've never been to a code camp! So, I thought, before people start making fun of me because of this, I'd better sign up for the Seattle Code Camp v4.0 which will be held on the third weekend next month in... Redmond
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Monday, September 29, 2008 3:35 AM

Which Microsoft virtualization solution to use for software testing

I have to admit the title is a bit misleading this time since - if you ask me - there is only one answer: Hyper-V ! It is the first Microsoft virtualization product to support 64-bit guest operating systems, SMP for some guests (see Supported Guest Operating
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 11:12 PM

A poor man's approach to testing with databases

Say you are working on software that accesses a database server and you need to test it. To some extent you'll probably try to not actually hit the database with your tests by using a mock. However, this is not always possible, especially when we're dealing
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 3:40 AM

Pimp your VSTT exception tests

Writing unit tests in VSTT is great since it comes with a nice unit testing framework and the test tools are neatly integrated into Visual Studio. There is one exception though: Exception testing (yes, that pun was intended). Consider the following example:
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