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Thursday, July 09, 2009 6:52 PM

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

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...
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009 8:28 AM

Art of Unit Testing on Hanselminutes

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
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Monday, June 22, 2009 7:46 AM

NDC 2009 – Done!

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
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009 1:43 AM

Questions every team and dev lead should ask themselves

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...
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Saturday, June 06, 2009 8:43 PM

Art Of Unit Testing available at Amazon

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.
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Tuesday, June 02, 2009 8:55 PM

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

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...
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Saturday, May 23, 2009 2:25 PM

Testing that an event was raised

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...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 5:22 PM

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

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...
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Monday, March 23, 2009 1:58 AM

Test Review #3 – Unity

Watch previous videos: Test Review #1 – NerdDinner Test Review #2 – ASP.NET MVC     In this video I go over the tests for Microsoft Unity Application Block. Overall the quality of the tests in Unity is pretty good! I could certainly recommend...
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Saturday, March 21, 2009 11:42 PM

Test Review #2 – ASP.NET MVC Unit Tests

See other reviews: Review #1: NerdDinner Here’s the second video review of Unit Tests. This is another one written by Microsoft – ASP.NET MVC ( source ). First, it’s important to state how surprised I was by the high quality of the tests in MVC. The tests...
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