Functional-style programming - Easy debugging!
Ever since LINQ arrived in C# land, a lot of people have been using a functional style of programming without even perhaps being conscious of it.
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Multiple Mocks?
This post was in response to a post on the fragmental.tw blog (the comments aren’t working for me, so I thought I’d post it here) which I read via Roy Oshero...
Data oriented design links
I’ve been doing a little reading around data oriented design of late and thought it was worth sharing some interesting links. Here’s my distillation of the r...
Castle DynamicProxy2 quirks
I’ve been faffing around with Castle.DynamicProxy2 a bit lately and it’s a pretty interesting bit of kit. Castle Dynamic Proxy (CDP) allows you to dynamicall...
Data-driven testing tricks
It’s a fairly common occurrence - somebody wants to use NUnit’s data driven testing, but they want to vary either the action under test, or the expectation. ...
AutoMapper and Test Data Builders
I’ve recently been tinkering with WCF and, as many people already know, writing data transfer objects is a pain in the balls. Nobody likes writing repetitive...
Avoiding the file system
Going from experience and, as illustrated by Misko’s recent presentation, the more dependencies you have on your environment, the less trustworthy and mainta...
Benefits of designing for testability
When I started my job as a Software Test Engineer, I had very little knowledge about unit testing. I had a good degree award and a load of acronyms to put on...