I recently attended a course organized by Mark Seemann at my workplace. Among other topics, the course involved advanced usage of AutoFixture, a framework that I’ve loved using for a couple of years now. AutoFixture always did a good job of helping to create dummy data for my unit…
I sometimes (not often) find myself needing a non-generic version of the CreateAnonymous extension-method for AutoFixture. 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 write reflection based…
Let’s face it, it doesn’t make sense to keep and maintain unit tests not executed on a continuous basis. In my previous post, I looked at a unit test framework for JavaScript called QUnit. While commonly used unit test runners like NUnit, JUnit and MSTest have great support…
I found myself repeatable adding the same Live Template to R# over and over again: The unit-test template. This template adds a method with a method name starting with Can as well as the arrange/act/assert comments, which I’m pretty much in love with. Each time I re-install…
This is my first blog post about unit testing. And so, without further ado here’s a small utility I wrote the other day. Problem Attributes in .NET as well as annotations in Java are great. I simply love the strengths of action filters in ASP.NET MVC, which are…