I recently attended a course organized by Mark Seemann [https://twitter.com/ploeh] at my workplace. Among other topics, the course involved advanced usage of AutoFixture [http://autofixture.codeplex.com/], a framework that I’ve loved using for a couple of years now. AutoFixture always did a good job of…
I sometimes (not often) find myself needing a non-generic version of the CreateAnonymous extension-method forAutoFixture [http://autofixture.codeplex.com/]. Usually when needing a test value, you do something like this: int someInt = new Fixture().CreateAnonymous<int>(); The code works for 99% of all tests. Now and then I…
During the last 6 years, I’ve preached unit testing to my colleagues and people attending my test-driven development [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development] courses. The set of tools I’ve used for this purpose have been stable, for the most part. This blog post is an attempt…
I’ve used mock as long as I remember (pretty much). I’m a big fan of the whole dependency injection movement and make heavily use of IoC [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion_of_control] containers. Especially constructor injection turns out to be the correct approach for almost every…
I’m usually writing about unit testing but hey, you want to test your lower layers as well. If you design your application with low coupling and test in mind, all of your layers but the data layer, can be tested with unit testing. You need to write some integration…