" Unit Testing is teh suck " - this post, and some of the comments to it, represent just about every conceivable FUD (fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) about Unit Testing and Test Driven development I've heard, so I'd urge you to go and read that post and especially its comments. Why? If you're not sure about...

I'm happy to announce my new Book Project : "The Art Of Unit Testing". The book will use examples in .NET, but it should be general enough so that any java or C++ developer should be able to read it and learn things. I'll talk more about the book's contents in future posts. I'll be writing the book for...

Eli Lopian, the Israeli guy who is now running TypeMock - one of the most powerful Mocking frameworks out there for.NET developers, opened a blog . I personally know the guy and he is a brilliant coder and architect - so it's worth listening to what he has to say. For example. in this post he lists resources...

James Avery argues that what he'd really like to see in a unit test framework is the ability to run (and fail) multiple asserts within the same test. As some background, I personally am in favor of the " single assert per unit test " idea for several reasons, the most prominent of them is that currently...

I'm happy to announce that draft of chapter 1 from my upcoming book " The Art of Unit Testing " is available for download immediately - click here for the PDF . the book will also be available to download from Manning's home page . Chapter summary: Chapter 1 tries to give a better definition of what...

A while ago I wrote an article about database unit testing , and the various ways you could "rollback" the database state to the way it was before the test ran. Today I got an interesting comment from Mike Brockey : "I have yet another solution to this very common problem. We have been able to isolate...

Yet another tool to help with integration tests against the database layer(got this by email: "I wanted to let you know about an open source tool I created to help unit test the data access layer. http://www.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ProjectName=MassDataHandler This tool uses knowledge...

Update : here's a video that yosi made of my draft song before the preconference... Que sera sera... Yesterday was a full day of pre-conference goodness. I've had a blast doing 4 sessions dealing with Agile Development within a team system Environment. As a special treat I've also brought in my Acoustic...

It’s possible to create elegant small tests which require little to no configuration whatsoever that test out your custom rule’s ability to verify problems. (I'll be discussing a framework for FxCop integration testing in a later post) Here’s a sample unit test: You'll need to add a reference to three...

This post is a continuation of my Quest to test FxCop rules. The previous one was about writing pure unit tests for FxCop rules . This one is about writing Integration tests with a new framework I’ve developed called FxCopUnit. For the past few days I’ve been struggling with FxCop – I’ve been Reflectoring...