The State of the Art on .NET

Published August 4th, 2010 Under Coding, Database, Open Source Tools, Software Testing | Leave a Comment

Amanda Laucher and Josh Graham present at an introductory level some of the most important elements of the .NET ecosystem: F#, M, Boo, NUnit, RhinoMocks, Moq, NHibernate, Castle, Windsor, NVelocity, Guerilla WCF, Azure, MEF.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/The-State-of-the-Art-on-.NET

Moles: Mocking the Un-Mockable

Published April 26th, 2010 Under Open Source Tools, Software Testing | Leave a Comment

In this episode we are going to take at how to use Pex and Moles for .Net. Unit testing is great, but most free isolation frameworks require that your mocks implement an interface. But what do you do when the class you are trying to mock is static or sealed with no interface. If you can’t modify the class then your unit testing efforts are usually stuck. Moles, the new free isolation framework from Microsoft, supports mocking almost any CLR based class (including sealed and static classes).

http://www.dimecasts.net/Content/WatchEpisode/170

Learning how to use Manual Mocks for Testing

Published March 1st, 2010 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment

In this episode we are going to take a look at how to use manual mocks for testing. Often times when creating unit tests we need to work in isolation in order to cover the paths we are attempting to test. When we want to test in isolation you can use a testing technique where you mock out your dependencies. When using Mocks you can either do it manually (what we are looking at) or you can use a mocking framework like Rhino Mocks. Either way you achieve the same results.

http://www.dimecasts.net/Content/WatchEpisode/164

Testable Software

Published November 9th, 2009 Under Architecture, Software Testing | Leave a Comment

In this talk David Evans and Mike Scott discuss the effect architectural decisions have on application testability. They assert that a testable architecture is inherently a better architecture, and demonstrate how testability in itself is an essential dimension in any architecture because of its relationship to good architectural patterns and practices.

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/open-source-dot-net/testable-software

Isolation Frameworks: Learning to use Partial Mocks

Published October 5th, 2009 Under Open Source Tools, Software Testing | Leave a Comment

In this episode we are going to continue our series on learning how to use an isolation framework (Rhino Mocks) to help create simpler and more reliable unit tests. This time around we are going to be focusing how to use Partial Mocks to test abstract classes and methods within a concrete class.

http://www.dimecasts.net/Content/WatchEpisode/142

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