Category Archives: RhinoMocks

Simplify Your Unit Tests With Automocking: Part 2 – Establishing Context

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Derick Bailey

Following my helper methods in the base context specification class that we use, I decided to simplify the entire process of setting the context in which the tests are running. Specifically, I wanted to get rid of the constant declaration … Continue reading →

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Simplify Your Unit Tests With Auto Mocking: Part 1 – Helper Methods

Posted on May 24, 2010 by Derick Bailey

After working on the Ninject.RhinoMocks automocking container, I started using it in my current project right away and it wasn’t long before I started simplifying the usage of it with helper methods in my base test class.   From “MockingKernel.Get<T>()” … Continue reading →

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Ninject.RhinoMocks: Auto Mocking Container For .NET 3.5 and Compact Framework 3.5

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Derick Bailey

Earlier today, I decided I was tired of calling RhinoMocks directly. I love RhinoMocks. It’s a great tool and I don’t want to write tests without it (or another mocking framework like Moq or whatever…). But I’m tired of all … Continue reading →

Also posted in .NET, Behavior Driven Development, Brownfield, C#, Compact Framework, Ninject, Unit Testing | 4 Comments

Working With Assertions Made on Arguments in Rhino Mocks

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Chris Missal

  Today when modifying what we call an “order notifier” (essentially observers that are notified when an order is placed), I was having trouble figuring out why my test was failing. The project is written in C# and this test … Continue reading →

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Unit Testing Simple ASP.NET MVC Controllers

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Chris Missal

I have created enough simple projects using ASP.NET MVC with unit tests to notice a very helpful pattern. The following is a sample of a test fixture using RhinoMocks and NUnit to test a controller. 1: [TestFixture] 2: public class … Continue reading →

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Auto mocking Explained

Posted on February 4, 2009 by Joshua Flanagan

What does it do? There is nothing fancy about an automocker. There is nothing scary about an automocker. An automocker is like one of those little classes we all write in order to quickly and easily create objects that we … Continue reading →

Also posted in Analysis and Design, Data Access, Design Patterns, Domain Driven Design, NHibernate, Principles and Patterns, Refactoring | 6 Comments

The Rhino.Mocks’ AssertWasCalled method does work

Posted on September 25, 2008 by Joshua Flanagan

This behavior is probably clearly specified somewhere, but somehow it has been non-obvious to the four people on our team to the point that we were leaning toward banning its use. I didn’t want to go that far, so figured … Continue reading →

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