I visited Roy Osherove session at TechEd 2008 Developers (EMEA) where he spoke about how and why to test software. There was nothing new to me besides couple of things but I want to give you a little overview about the most painful topic for companies and developers - how to start testing. It was the...

This major version adds static method support and non-public method faking to the AAA API. Check out the release notes . I don’t like the reflective approach to testing private methods. With the new additions to the AAA API, testing this class: public class MyClass { public string Public() { return this...

Some time ago I was asked if it was possible to fake output parameters with Typemock Isolator . It’s actually very easy using any of the APIs. Given this class: public class MyClass { public bool MyMethod( string input, out int output1, out double output2) { throw new NotImplementedException (); } }...

  I have developed multiple E-Commerce sites (Mostly using a home grown Paypal /Verisign gateway ). However I am always forgetting the format of some of these wrong so here is the test credit card numbers: American Express: 3111-1111-1111-1117 Visa: 4111-1111-1111-1111 or 4222-2222-2222-2222 MasterCard...

I have been coding using Microsoft technologies for a long while. Recently I was given the chance to do a little bit of web mastering. Due to my system admin background I was most definitely game for this. Learning IIS 6.0 was not a huge leap as I had done a lot of development using IIS5.1(Windows XP...

Peli has just posted a good post on using Pex in a TDD fashion to create a binary heap. In case you don't know, Peli is actually one of the guys working on Pex at MSR so if you have a chance do give it a look ;-) " Pex (Program EXploration) is an intelligent assistant to the programmer. From a parameterized...

Too Many cooks in the kitchen. When is too many developers one project a bad idea? So I had the chance to meet with some friends the other day. Of course they work as developers like me. They work for one of those companies with allot of money to throw at a web site (a == 1). I found it interesting having...

a.k.a. The “I didn’t know I had to test that” checklist. Each tester is responsible for ensuring that his/her feature integrates correctly with the rest of Asp.Net, which is a challenge because Asp.Net is a very big product and almost no one can keep all the different features in their...

Typemock has released version 5.0 of its unit testing tool: Isolator . Check out the release notes . This new version comes with a new API: A rrange A ct A ssert: Isolator AAA API - The Basics Isolator AAA: Creating Fakes I’ll have to say that I liked Isolator better over Isolate . Also new in this version...

I've not looked at Pex (Program EXploration) yet but it seems pretty interesting. The previous version 0.5 only supported x86. I watched the Channel9 video on Pex a while back now, and have been following it via word of mouth for a long time so when 0.5 dropped it was pretty exciting...until I found...