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Minimizing unit Test Fragility – 8 features in Typemock Isolator to help

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:52:50 GMT

in continuation to my challenge (which no one had bothered answering, lazy web!) One of the things that inhibits unit tests in organizations is the idea of fragile tests. a Fragile test is a test that can easily break when the production code changes Read More......(read more)

Preventing fragile tests – how can isolation frameworks help or hinder your goal?

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:06:58 GMT

One of the things that inhibits unit tests in organizations is the idea of fragile tests. a Fragile test is a test that can easily break when the production code changes. That’s not to say that tests should never break as you change production code, but Read More......(read more)

Art of Unit Testing on Hanselminutes

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:28:40 GMT

Scott Hanselman took me in for a 30 minute interview about Unit Testing Dos and Don’ts in his podcast, Hanselminutes. It was a pleasure, and I hope to be there once more about other topics. Maybe in TechEd Berlin.. Have a listen Read More......(read more)

TDD Master class in Kent, UK

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:16:22 GMT

I’m happy to announce that I’ll be doing a 5 day TDD master class in the UK, September 21-25. Full course details are here . If you read my blog or seen my twitter, you also have the chance for an early bird pricing. but, if you use the following VIP Read More......(read more)

Lifetime of a software methodology

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:36:26 GMT

I think I heard Jerry Seinfeld say that the life of an actor are: Who’s Jerry Seinfeld? Get me Jerry Seinfeld Get me a young Jerry Seinfeld Who’s Jerry Seinfeld? Which really feels these days like: What’s “CMM” Let’s do “CMM” Let’s do an Read More......(read more)

TDD Master Class almost full

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:08:54 GMT

My upcoming TDD Master class in Oslo, Norway, during august, has only a few seats left. I heard from several people at NDC that they are planning to sign up, so I’d suggest they hurry up . This class is a 5 day pair programming fest, where people work Read More......(read more)

NDC 2009 – Done!

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:46:14 GMT

NDC 2009 was a blast! Thanks for all the great conversations :) Here’s what it looked like when you look up at a full room in NDC Read More......(read more)

Questions every team and dev lead should ask themselves

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 05:43:34 GMT

here are the questions that teams and team leads should be asking themselves on a daily\weekly basis. There are more, but these are the basics, to me. It’s part of the summary for the talk “Beautiful teams I am giving at SEConf and NDC. we do a lot of Read More......(read more)

Art Of Unit Testing available at Amazon

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:43:57 GMT

My book, The Art Of Unit Testing , is now in stock at Amazon. If you’ve read the book, I’d love it if you put in a review on that page. Read More......(read more)

Using Explicit Arrange,Act,Assert scopes in tests – thoughts?

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:55:11 GMT

What are your thoughts on this style of writing? Specifically the “Explicit” way of defining arrange, act and assert scopes. also, given the name of the test, where should the call to “OnApplyTemplate” be (if you’ve never seen the code)? which version Read More......(read more)

Upcoming SilverUnit Preview

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:54:00 GMT

Coming up in SilverUnit , the true unit testing framework for silverlight controls Read More......(read more)

SilverUnit Project Template and new version

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:45:41 GMT

SilverUnit 0.5 has been released with some speed optimizations, as well as binary reference to the latest Typemock version 5.3.0. If you don’t know what it is, SilverUnit aims to allow true unit testing of silverlight objects, without needing to run them Read More......(read more)

Testing that an event was raised

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Sat, 23 May 2009 18:25:20 GMT

This question keeps coming up: “How can I test that an event was actually raised from my class under test?” actually, there is an easy way to check if an event was raised. you subscribe to the event in your test, and in the event handler you set a boolean Read More......(read more)

DateTime.LastYear

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Fri, 22 May 2009 09:09:21 GMT

Oh, didn’t I mention we can now fake DateTime.Now in unit tests ? Read More......(read more)

Art Of Unit Testing (The Samurai Book)– Get it now, it’s done.

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:22:14 GMT

The time has actually come. After 2.5 years, and two kids, my book is finally done and is available in full form as an EBook. at the end of the month it will be in print form. Now would be the time to get it, when it is still at a “pre-order” pricing Read More......(read more)

Introducing Typemock Racer 1.0 – Find multithreaded deadlocks

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:32:51 GMT

I’m proud to announce the official release of Typemock Racer - A Parallel Inspection engine for your multithreaded code. Think Microsoft Chess, only it’s available today, for visual studio 2008, and will continually be updated with new features. Racer Read More......(read more)

TDD with SharePoint – the best movie ever

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:51:38 GMT

Thanks to Andrew Woodward for this great intro to TDD with SharePoint! this awe inspiring movie is the reason I got into TDD in the first place. Video is courtesy of the Sharepoint Pod Show – if you’re into SharePoint, looks like that podcast should be Read More......(read more)

Outputting build status from FinalBuilder to TeamCity

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Tue, 19 May 2009 11:01:56 GMT

as a personal reference – next time I need FinalBuilder to output data into TeamCIty (such as current build status etc..) : here is the documentation that explains the simple text formatting rules All you need to do in FB is to use “Comment” tasks and Read More......(read more)

Free Typemock licenses – Welcome the ASP.NET Unit Testing Bundle

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:48:13 GMT

My company is giving away free Typemock Isolator licenses for bloggers, in light of a new ASP.NET Unit testing bundle offering. If you’re interested in all the gory details, this is the place you want to go . Read More......(read more)

“Code Leader” book – what’s the missing piece?

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:40:55 GMT

I first heard about the book “Code Leader” from this blog entry . What got me interested about it is that this is the first book I‘ve seen that tries to take the technical approach to teaching team leadership. First, I think that this book is (at least Read More......(read more)

Fixing test failures using binary search

Test Driven Development — Fri, 15 May 2009 11:07:00 GMT

With Rhino Queues, I have a very serious problem. While all the tests would run if they were run individually, running them in concrete would cause them to fail. That is a pretty common case of some test affecting the global state of the system (in fact Read More......(read more)

Challenge: multi threaded test failure

Test Driven Development — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:55:00 GMT

On one of my machines, I can consistently get the following test failure, because of an exception throw here: As you can see, we get an ObjectDisposedException here, which cause the test to fail. There is only one problem with that: We only dispose the Read More......(read more)

Don’t mock my integration tests

Test Driven Development — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:26:59 GMT

Dror from TypeMock has managed to capture the essence of my post about unit tests vs. integration tests quite well: Unit tests runs faster but integration tests are easier to write. Unfortunately, he draws an incorrect conclusion out of that; There is Read More......(read more)

Unit tests vs. Integration tests

Test Driven Development — Sun, 10 May 2009 12:14:00 GMT

I can sum it up pretty easily: Unit tests: 65 passed, 0 failed, 5 skipped, took 7.49 seconds. Integration tests: 45 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped, took 284.43 seconds. Except , there is one thing that you aren’t seeing here. Writing an integration tests Read More......(read more)

NHibernate Unit Testing

Test Driven Development — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:32:00 GMT

When using NHibernate we generally want to test only three things, that properties are persisted, that cascade works as expected and that queries return the correct result. In order to do all of those, we generally have to talk to a real database, trying Read More......(read more)