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Typemock Is Launching The ASP.NET Bundle – Get Free Licenses
Typemock is launching a new product for ASP.NET developers – the ASP.NET Bundle - and for the launch they are giving out FREE licenses to bloggers and their readers. The ASP.NET Bundle is the ultimate ASP.NET unit testing solution, and offers both Typemock...

Posted Mon, May 18 2009 23:57 by Paulo Morgado | with no comments

Help Typemock Launch Its New Visual Basic .NET Friendly API And You Might Get A Free License
Typemock is announcing today a new version of Typemock Isolator (5.2). One of the coolest features in the new version is the inclusion of a new VB .NET unit testing API . This 'VB friendly' API was designed and written in VB.NET, for VB.NET developers...

Posted Tue, Jan 13 2009 21:32 by Paulo Morgado | with no comments

Improving Debugging And Testing Through Assertions
Reading through the The Typemock Insider blog, I came across this post from Gil Zilberfeld . I myself tend to fall in Gil’s practice ("binary search" debugging), but I don’t think Kent Beck has the right solution . Gil’s suggestion of using...

Posted Wed, Dec 3 2008 2:56 by Paulo Morgado | with no comments

Typemock Isolator 5.1 Released
This major version adds static method support and non-public method faking to the AAA API. Check out the release notes . I don’t like the reflective approach to testing private methods. With the new additions to the AAA API, testing this class: public...

Posted Mon, Oct 6 2008 23:41 by Paulo Morgado | with no comments

Faking Output Parameters With Typemock Isolator
Some time ago I was asked if it was possible to fake output parameters with Typemock Isolator . It’s actually very easy using any of the APIs. Given this class: public class MyClass { public bool MyMethod( string input, out int output1, out double output2...

Posted Mon, Oct 6 2008 21:51 by Paulo Morgado | 2 comment(s)

Typemock Isolator 5.0 Is Out With Its New AAA API
Typemock has released version 5.0 of its unit testing tool: Isolator . Check out the release notes . This new version comes with a new API: A rrange A ct A ssert: Isolator AAA API - The Basics Isolator AAA: Creating Fakes I’ll have to say that I liked...

Posted Wed, Aug 20 2008 22:33 by Paulo Morgado | with no comments

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...

Posted Wed, Jul 2 2008 21:47 by Paulo Morgado | with no comments

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...

Posted Mon, Jun 30 2008 0:40 by Paulo Morgado | with no comments

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...

Posted Tue, Jun 24 2008 0:40 by Paulo Morgado | 5 comment(s)

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...

Posted Thu, May 29 2008 0:54 by Paulo Morgado | with no comments

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...

Posted Tue, Mar 4 2008 23:10 by Paulo Morgado | with no comments

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...

Posted Mon, Mar 3 2008 0:40 by Paulo Morgado | with no comments

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.

Posted Tue, Feb 5 2008 0:07 by Paulo Morgado | with no comments

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...

Posted Sun, Feb 3 2008 22:16 by Paulo Morgado | 1 comment(s)

POUT - That's The Way I Like It
POUT - Plain Old Unit Testing Read all about it here .

Posted Sun, Feb 3 2008 15:33 by Paulo Morgado | with no comments

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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...

Posted Sun, Feb 3 2008 15:17 by Paulo Morgado | with no comments

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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...

Posted Thu, Jan 31 2008 23:56 by Paulo Morgado | 2 comment(s)

TypeMock: Making Reflective Mocks More Natural
I've been thinking about this for a while. Seems like someone beat me to it.

Posted Tue, Jan 29 2008 22:46 by Paulo Morgado | 2 comment(s)

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...

Posted Mon, Jan 28 2008 1:15 by Paulo Morgado | 2 comment(s)

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TypeMock Basic Introduction Screencast at Facebook
Roy Osherove done a nice introductory 10 minute screencast that shows some basic features in TypeMock .

Posted Sun, Jan 27 2008 22:42 by Paulo Morgado | with no comments

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