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Isolator 4.3 Released!

Today Typemock released version 4.3 of Typemock Isolator . Download it from here . What’s new? Support for Ivonna . For those of you who develop ASP.Net applications, Ivonna is a great tool, built on top of Isolator’s platform, to simplify writing tests...
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Why Use Random Values For Unit Testing

On a previous post I introduced a library for generating random values for purposes of unit testing. I received a few comments and questions on my blogs [ ^ ][ ^ ][ ^ ][ ^ ]. Simon says that he’d “generally want every instance of the test I run to be...

Using Random Values For Unit Testing

When writing my unit tests I don’t like to use hard coded fixed values because I either end up using the same values or, because of that, tests may succeed by coincidence. Over time, I have developed an helper class to generate random values for testing...

Testing With Multiple Versions Of Internet Explorer

On a previous post I mentioned IETester . Jorge Moura mentioned TredoSoft ’s MultipleIEs and a list of web browsers .
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Typemock Developers Community Site Updated

Typemock has updated its Developers Community Site with new sections. Besides the forums , there's a new add-ons page where anyone can share her/his tools or snippets (I guess I'll have to brush up my Typemock Snippets For Visual Studio to add...

Upcoming Typemock Webcast on March 12

Typemock is having a special Webcast on Wednesday March 12, 16:00 GMT The live demo will include: The Support of the new .NET 3.5 framework and specifically how to mock LINQ statements. The improved IDE based on using colors to emphasize mocked methods...

TypeMock Isolator 4.2 Released

TypeMock has released version 4.2 of its mocking framework: TypeMock Insulator. Check out the release notes . My four favorite new features in this release are: Improved mock chaining Debugger evaluation doesn't change the test behavior The debugger...

Typemock Insulator Is Typemock Isolator

Yesterday I made a mistake with the name of the next version of TypeMock . The real name is TypeMock Isolator. Whatever the name is, you should try it out.

TypeMock Insulator 4.2 Beta Publicly Available

TypeMock (now called) Insulator 4.2 Beta is publicly available. Check out the release notes . One of my favorite new features is the improved mock chaining. Take this class to be tested: public class TestedClass1 { public IDictionary < string , object...

POUT - That's The Way I Like It

POUT - Plain Old Unit Testing Read all about it here .
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TDD Proven Effective! Or is it? - by Jacob Proffitt

Jacob Proffitt has some comments about the the paper on the effectiveness of test-first approach to programming . Here are a few excerpts: If you're like me, you understand the problem better after implementing it and can thus create more relevant...
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TypeMock: How to Make Reflective Mocks More Natural

Like I said before , this as been on the back of my mind for a while. A while back I introduced a way to get the MethodInfo of a method in a strongly typed way using LINQ , and that's how I'm going to make Reflective Mocks more Natural . Well...

TypeMock: Making Reflective Mocks More Natural

I've been thinking about this for a while. Seems like someone beat me to it.

Is Testing The Ultimate Goal?

Whenever you throw TDD without worshiping it you turn yourself immediately in a victim of religious fundamentalists. TDD is a gift from god, it's good, it's cool and should never be questioned. It's a dogma. Frans Bouma complains about it...
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Custom Generators For SQL Data Generator 1.0 Beta

SQL Data Generator will be a great tool when redgate releases it. David Connell has a detailed post on how to build your own generator where he explains the concepts and ideas behind developing generators for SQL Data Generator 1.0 Beta . Andrew Clarke...

TypeMock Basic Introduction Screencast at Facebook

Roy Osherove done a nice introductory 10 minute screencast that shows some basic features in TypeMock .
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Naming Conventions For Unit Testing

Reading Roy Osherove 's post about naming conventions for unit testing I have to say that it all makes sense to me. I just want to add that for property testing I use the corresponding method names: get_ Property and set_ Property .
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TypeMock Snippets For Visual Studio

I've just created a set of code snippets for Visual Studio for my most used features of TypeMock . Feel free to use it.

JSMock on CodePlex

Bruno has set up a project at CodePlex for his testing framework for JavaScript .

Unit Testing in JavaScript

Bruno does a lot of JavaScript development and needs to build lots of web pages to test his code. On top of that, those tests always involve a human tester and cannot be included in automated tests (like in continuous integration). That's why I dared...
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