Richard Fennell : Testing

My Glasgow presentation last night.

But it works on my PC! — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:04:17 GMT

Thanks to everyone who turned up for my presentation on Typemock and Sharepoint in Glasgow last night. I have just upload my slides onto the Black Marble site . As the session was quite demo driven the slides don’t offer the best code samples. If you...(read more)

Speaking at Scottish Developers on Typemock

But it works on my PC! — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:19:06 GMT

On Wednesday the 15th this week I will be speaking at Scottish Developers on developer testing of SharePoint . This is a free event so please come along if you are interested and in the area. If you are not able to make it to Glasgow but are interested...(read more)

Video recording gotta for VS2010 Test Runner

But it works on my PC! — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:00:40 GMT

VS2010 has excellent new features to assist the tester in general, and specifically in the area of manual testing . One of these is the ability to video a manual test run; to get this to work you have to have the Windows Media Encoder 9 installed as well...(read more)

Grow your own testing framework

But it works on my PC! — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:48:34 GMT

Ben Hall has written an interesting post on creating a testing framework with MEF. As Ben said it is more a learning exercise for MEF than a useful product but it certainly show show the ease you can add meta data and reflection like functionality to...(read more)

Addressing binding issues with with Ivonna 2.0.0 using in web.config

But it works on my PC! — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:28:09 GMT

I have been having some binding problems when trying to use Ivonna 2.0.0 against a version of Typemock Isolator other than the 5.3.0 build it was built to run against. This is a know issue, if your version of Ivonna and Typemock don’t match then you have...(read more)

New bundle from Typemock

But it works on my PC! — Mon, 18 May 2009 10:22:41 GMT

I have been blogging for a while now on using Tyepmock & Ivonna for various forms of testing, well you can bow buy both packages as a bundle and here is the blog/press viral marketing release….. Unit Testing ASP.NET? ASP.NET unit testing has never...(read more)

Last nights Agile Yorkshire meeting on Exploratory Testing

But it works on my PC! — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:18:10 GMT

I was unable to attend the last Agile Yorkshire meeting, shame it sounds like it was a good one. The slides are up and give a really nice overview of the theory behind exploratory testing, worth a look at http://www.agileyorkshire.org/2009-event-announcements...(read more)

Another speaking engagement – Vbug Newcastle on SharePoint Testing

But it works on my PC! — Sat, 09 May 2009 15:13:43 GMT

I will be doing a session on Testing SharePoint using Typemock Isolator on the 3rd June in Newcastle. Check the Vbug site for more details....(read more)

My grok talk on Sharepoint tetsing with Typemock Isolator and Ivonna at DD Scotland

But it works on my PC! — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:50:25 GMT

I had an enjoyable day at Developer Day Scotland in Glasgow yesterday; a big thank you to the organisers and speakers. I did a short grok talk on ‘Testing Sharepoint using Typemock Isolator and Ivonna’, a few people asked me for more details. Well the...(read more)

Testing access attributes on the Microsoft MVC framework

But it works on my PC! — Fri, 01 May 2009 08:56:51 GMT

The MVC framework provides an excellent way to create a testable web site. In fact when you create a new MVC project you are given the option to create an associated test project that contains MSTEST unit tests for all the sample methods in the MVC Controller...(read more)

My NxtGen tour in August

But it works on my PC! — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:06:04 GMT

I will be speaking on developer testing of SharePoint projects using Typemock at both the Birmingham and Manchester NXtGen user groups in August. For more details check the NxtGen site ....(read more)

Licensing exception with Ivonna the Typemock add-in (and any other add-ins I suspect)

But it works on my PC! — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:51:37 GMT

Like a good developer I have been trying to run Visual Studio with least privilege; with Windows 7 this seems to work well. My main account is not an administrator, but Windows prompts me for elevated rights when needed. I have been developing happily...(read more)

Speaking in Newcastle tomorrow

But it works on my PC! — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:30:09 GMT

If you are in Newcastle on the evening of the 22nd I will be speaking at Vbug on Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition . Hope to see you there....(read more)

Next Agile Yorkshire Meeting – Exploratory Testing

But it works on my PC! — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:34:43 GMT

Next months Agile Yorkshire meeting is on the 13th May where Ralph Williams will be talking about Exploratory Testing , the session outline sound interesting....(read more)

Team Build, Code Coverage and MVC

But it works on my PC! — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 17:12:09 GMT

I have been working on some automated build and testing for a project based on the Microsoft MVC framework. The build was working fine, and test were being run, but I was not seeing any code coverage data in the build summary in Visual Studio for the...(read more)

Testing SharePoint Workflows using TypeMock Isolator (Part 3)

But it works on my PC! — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:42:16 GMT

Now I can test a basic workflow it soon becomes obvious that you could end up with many tests for a single workflow, as a workflow can have any number of criteria that could cause branching to occur. Maybe a sensible way to write the tests is using Fit...(read more)

Testing SharePoint Workflows using TypeMock Isolator (Part 2)

But it works on my PC! — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:48:26 GMT

After reading Gil’s blog on writing simpler tests I have done some tidying of the code from my previous post . In this version I have extracted the boiler plate code to run the workflow to a static helper method and modified my tests to incorporate Gil...(read more)

Testing SharePoint Workflows using TypeMock Isolator

But it works on my PC! — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:28:00 GMT

I have for a while been trying to test SharePoint workflows using TypeMock Isolator to mock out the SharePoint fixtures, I want to remove the dependency of having SharePoint on any test boxes where possible. I have at last got this working after getting...(read more)

Which way to fake an item in Typemock

But it works on my PC! — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:22:30 GMT

I raised a question on the Typemock forum concerning a problem I was having mocking Sharepoint SPFarm objects. It was all down to which way to fake items using the various techniques in Isolator. It was interesting enough, I thought, to repeat here as...(read more)

Running TypeMock based test in Team Build

But it works on my PC! — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:34:02 GMT

If you have TypeMock Isolator based MSTests in a solution you will want them to be run as part of any CI build process. To get this to work with Team Build you have to make sure Isolator is started in the build box at the right time (something that is...(read more)