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Category Archives: Testing
Tracking down a strange issue with WatiN and IIS Express
In my current project, we have a system that runs our Watin tests using NUnit. We also want to run the tests in our CI build, so we start IIS Express in a [SetUpFixture]. Today I was doing my check … Continue reading
Also posted in Analytics, Continuous Improvement, Project Management
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Mocks, Stubs and Unreadable Tests: Clearly I’m Doing This Wrong
I tweeted this a few minutes ago: This is in reference to a horrible test that I wrote today. It’s got 2 assertions and more than 20 lines of context to set up the mocks that I needed, to isolate … Continue reading
AutoMapper Tests Made Simple
I work primarily on a C# ASP.NET MVC application that deals with many other systems which seem to dish out strings all over the place. Hence the need for something like AutoMapper. When converting this data into objects or enumerations, … Continue reading
Also posted in AutoMapper, DRY, NUnit
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Verifying Generated HTML With HAML, Cucumber, Capybara and RSpec
Several of the reports that the app that Joey and I are working on will be generated via HAML to be displayed in the app, for the users. The generated content will end up being HTML, but starts it’s life … Continue reading
A Semi-Intelligent Watchr Script For Rails And RSpec
I’m using Watchr in my current Rails 3 project, instead of Autotest, to run my Cucumber and RSpec tests whenever I save a file. It makes life so much easier than having to manually run them. Yesterday, I decided to … Continue reading
Web Development Stack In OSX
It has been almost a month since I ventured out into contracting and took up OSX on a Macbook Pro as my primary operating system. In that time, I’ve been very fortunate to have Joey Beninghove guide me through the … Continue reading
The case against Interfaces in TDD
Mark Ploeh has an interesting post about interfaces in TDD – that interfaces aren’t necessarily abstractions. That’s certainly true. Interfaces don’t guarantee we’re actually following SOLID design principles. In fact, the whole idea of the typical repository pattern in a … Continue reading
Cost vs. Risk In Testing
There was a bit of interesting discussion on twitter this morning, concerning the cost of test-first vs. risk. Here’s the visual version of what I’m saying: The premise behind the value of test-first is that we will wash out (or … Continue reading
Five rules for writing effective UI tests
For about 3 years, I wrote absolutely horrible UI tests. These tests worked great for a while, but like most people that tried their hands at UI tests, found them to be utterly brittle and unmaintainable in the face of … Continue reading
An effective testing strategy
On a recent large project, we had a goal early on that we didn’t want to have a lot of QA folks manually testing our software. Finding bugs through manual testing is incredibly time consuming and expensive, so we opted … Continue reading
