Understanding test doubles
There is a bewildering array of types of ‘mock’ object available to a tester. The canonical list of test doubles was probably coined by the venerable Martin ...
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Getting up and running with Fluent NHibernate
I’ve been meaning to try out NHibernate for a good ol’ while. It’s a long-established and respected O/R M library and one of the authors (Ayende) writes a bl...
Invert logical statements to reduce nesting
As a test engineer, I spend a lot of my time reading -and making sense of- other people’s code. I find it interesting that logically equivalent, re-arranged ...
Visual Studio 2008 ordering fail
Something I’ve just noticed is that Visual Studio falls far, far short when it comes to solution ordering.
What’s in a name?
One of the things I try to encourage is the careful selection of names. Just as self-documenting code is easier to read, so is a self-documenting test. As I ...