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Monday, March 16, 2009 7:33 PM

Art of unit Testing goes to print in April

The book of never ending production is now actually near the end. the projected print date of “Art Of Unit Testing” is now April 30 and I’m happy to see the Amazon page for the book already has one review of the early access version (though he totally...
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Monday, March 09, 2009 4:11 PM

What Isolation\Mocking and unit testing framework are you using?

It’s time to re-examine where things stand in our little niche. This should be interesting, if enough people answer – so please answer (you need flash).  
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 1:24 PM

Unit Testing in VB.NET – with Typemock Isolator (with a free license offer)

A move I’ve been pushing for a while now has finally come through today – Helping to bring unit testing into VB.NET. This is something I strongly believe in: VB has been kind of left behind with the range of latest alt.net related frameworks – mostly...
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 9:27 AM

Unit Testing decoupled from TDD as well== Adoption

The discussion on the future of unit testing for the masses has shifted from the standard “if they are too stupid to learn it, we don’t want them” to “TDD without good design will make really bad tests”. and this is a good thing. it’s a good thing because...
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008 5:41 PM

Kanban, anyone?

ooh. This Kanban thing looks nice and shiney .  Will it “meme” and die, or will it stay and flourish, to be the next “xp”? Maybe it’s time to learn from our XP-Scrum experiences and evolve. Maybe Kanban is one path to that evolution.
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Saturday, July 12, 2008 6:23 AM

Over Specification in Tests

I've gotten the chance to visit and consult various companies and I see this all the time: Over specification in tests, especially when doing mocks and stubs . One main reason for that is that people use their stub as a mock object (stubs are fake objects...
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 11:42 AM

A sneak Preview of Typemock Racer : Thread Deadlock Finder

Here's a sneak preview of the upcoming Typemock Racer product, which I'm currently working on. We should be out in private CTP in a couple of weeks I hope. Typemock Racer tries to solve one huge problem for developers working in multi threaded environments...
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Sunday, July 06, 2008 2:59 PM

Is Moq too poweful?

It's interesting to see the other mocking frameworks as they grow into maturity. Especially Moq which has been getting loads of new features recently. The latest one is something which makes me feel a bit weird after reading all the things people fear...
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Monday, May 19, 2008 6:50 AM

Two Faced Commits - how the ALT.NET Community is becoming more and more dogmatic

disclaimer: I work at Typemock. There is a big trend I am starting to notice in the "Advanced" unit testing community. That trend feels more and more like hypocrisy. Take Daniel's post about mocking statics without Typemock . (Daniel is the creator of...
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Sunday, May 18, 2008 1:30 PM

Tough Questions about unit testing - Your comments required

As part of My Book I have a chapter on the challenges of integrating unit testing practices into an organization. One of the sections deals with "Tough questions and answers". In short, what are the tough questions you will have to deal with when introducing...
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