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MbUnit 2.4 RTM is out

See the official announcement from Andy's blog here . You can download the bits here . Nudge to smash , try it and you'll love it.

Published Fri, May 05 2007 12:18 PM by jokiz

Filed under: tdd, unit testing

insufficient test code coverage -> broken build

i agree that incorporating code coverage criteria in your build scripts is very restrictive, but you have no choice if your team is just starting out doing tdd or writing plain automated unit tests. how can you force them to learn to write automated unit...

Published Fri, May 05 2007 10:04 AM by jokiz

Filed under: tdd, continuous integration, unit testing

Persistence tests

We have been using NHibernate for most of our apps here in our company and having persistence tests for each business object in your integration test suite in my opinion is definitely a must. My current project which has minimal number of tests, most...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2007 11:12 AM by jokiz

Filed under: tdd, xUnit

TDD-CI environment work - definitely a plus

We still have a job advertisement for a C# developer and one of the requirements is experience in agile software development using T est- D riven D evelopment and C ontinuous I ntegration setup. You can hardly find a .NET company in the Philippines which...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2007 5:29 PM by jokiz

Filed under: CSLA, tdd, lokal, continuous integration

working around a project with minimal unit tests

coming from a project with number of unit tests in it (hundreds i believe), it's hard to work around our current project without it. we're near the release of the project and we still have 31 unit and integration test cases for the .NET client application...

Published Tue, Jan 01 2007 9:40 PM by jokiz

Filed under: tdd, continuous integration, xUnit

Saved by an automated test

Last week, I was assigned to fix a bug in my first project in my current company. The said application was released months ago and is currently being used by our client. Initially, the fix was just to move a particular line of code just above a conditional...

Published Sat, Dec 12 2006 2:44 AM by jokiz

Filed under: tdd, continuous integration

MbUnit 2.3 is out

Andew Stopford announced the release of MbUnit 2.3 here , and it's great to see my name as a contributor for the said release. If you haven't tried it's RowTestFixture , you better give it a shot. I haven't really explored more on it's features but I...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2006 9:31 PM by jokiz

Filed under: tdd, xUnit

Singleton usage

We currently have a Singleton class in our application which in the next phase of development will change to a multi-instance. The problem is every class which makes use of it accesses it directly through the exposed static interface. I believe this is...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2006 7:52 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, tdd

"Test" word preceding Unit Test Methods

Previous testing frameworks including NUnit 1.0 by convention demands the Test word as prefix for test method names in order for the test runner to run it. Now that we are using .NET attributes to instruct the runner which test methods to run, i find...

Published Wed, Oct 10 2006 1:22 PM by jokiz

Filed under: tdd

InstallShield 12 uninstall breaks TestDriven.NET

I have just uninstalled my Evaluation copy of InstallShield 12 which I used to setup our build server. Unluckily, my TestDriven.NET addin suddenly is not behaving properly. My officemate who also had his IS12 copy uninstalled currently have the same problem...

Published Mon, Oct 10 2006 10:48 PM by jokiz

Filed under: techie, visual studio, tdd

Test-driven programming with a student

Last weekend, i helped my friend and former student with her sudoku solver project in Java. Basically, her professor gave her a list of methods for the solver class with their expected behavior. I wanted to teach her test-driven programming so i asked...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2006 3:12 PM by jokiz

Filed under: tdd, xUnit

ExpectedException vs Testdriven.Net's easy VS code navigation

I was using MbUnit in my expression evaluator when i noticed that a failing test with an ExpectedException does not include a link to the line of the failing code. The link is established if you are on a DEBUG build (i encountered not seeing a link since...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2006 5:22 PM by jokiz

Filed under: tdd, xUnit

Using NMock to test interaction of IComparable objects with it's IComparer

I have a requirement to sort a business object and obviously providing an IComparer for the said business object and implementing IComparable is the way to do it. And because of the dependency of the business object to the IComparer, i thought this could...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2006 12:25 PM by jokiz

Filed under: tdd, nmock

Encapsulation vs Testability

Reference articles: Why use private or protected Testability I am fond of Rocky Lhotka 's CSLA framework before and when i shifted to be test-driven, there are some constructs in CSLA that i'm beginning to dislike. I like the broken rule tracking...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2006 7:39 PM by jokiz

Filed under: CSLA, oop, tdd

MbUnit vs NUnit

Roy Osherove has illustrated the need to Avoid Multiple Asserts in a test method. Basically i agree with his points in the said blog post. I currently need need to test a number of permutations and i want to be disciplined to avoid multiple assertions...

Published Tue, Sep 09 2006 2:44 PM by jokiz

Filed under: tdd, xUnit

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MbUnit 2.4 RTM is out

insufficient test code coverage -> broken build

Persistence tests

TDD-CI environment work - definitely a plus

working around a project with minimal unit tests

Saved by an automated test

MbUnit 2.3 is out

Singleton usage

"Test" word preceding Unit Test Methods

InstallShield 12 uninstall breaks TestDriven.NET

Test-driven programming with a student

ExpectedException vs Testdriven.Net's easy VS code navigation

Using NMock to test interaction of IComparable objects with it's IComparer

Encapsulation vs Testability

MbUnit vs NUnit