Category Archives: Testing

On Testing “Trivial Code”

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Derick Bailey

I can’t resist jumping on the band-wagon and telling people that they’re wrong, so here goes… :D Mark “Ploeh” Seemann wrote a post on testing trivial code. There have been several responses saying he’s wrong and that you shouldn’t test … Continue reading →

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Are your unit tests still hard to read ? – Should Assertion Library

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Eric Hexter

I created the Should library to fill a gap in the testing ecosystem in the .Net space.  Simply put, I took what I liked about using extension methods to make a more readable set of assertions, but made the library … Continue reading →

Also posted in AntiPatterns, Model-View-Controller, Pragmatism, Principles and Patterns, Ruby | 6 Comments

Own Your Work

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Chris Missal

This post is mostly here to share a link. Jeremy Miller posted ‘“Code Complete” is a polite fiction, “Done, done, done” is the hard truth‘. Before clicking through I thought I was going to disagree. After reading through, I agree … Continue reading →

Also posted in .NET, Analysis and Design, AntiPatterns, C#, Model-View-Controller, Rails, Ruby, Security | 41 Comments

Testing with queries and repositories (a simple example)

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

Not being much of a fan of the Repository pattern, or better yet, not a fan of applying it as a universal data access strategy, one question that comes up often is “but what about testing”? But the question should … Continue reading →

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JavaScript Unit Tests: Jasmine vs Mocha

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Derick Bailey

Someone recently asked me whether I prefer Jasmine or Mocha for unit testing JavaScript. My answer is: Jasmine and Mocha are both great. I use both, depending on the project and team. There’s a great community around both, and you’ll … Continue reading →

Also posted in ChaiJS, Jasmine, Javascript, MochaJS, Unit Testing | 6 Comments

Isolating database data in integration tests

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Jimmy Bogard

Databases in tests is an annoying, yet necessary component if you truly want to create accurate integration tests. I’m not too much of a fan of employing alternate databases in tests (SQLite in place of SQL Server), simply because I … Continue reading →

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Asynchronous Unit Tests With Mocha, Promises, And WinJS

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Derick Bailey

Before I get in to the guts of this post, you need to read Christopher Bennage’s post on how we have our Mocha test suite set up for our Win8 / WinJS project. It’s not the best setup, but it … Continue reading →

Also posted in Async, ChaiJS, CommonJS, Javascript, MochaJS, WinJS | 11 Comments

Jasmine-BDD: A Screencast On The Standalone Test Runner

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Derick Bailey

My 2nd screencast at WatchMeCode.net is now online, and is free! WatchMeCode Episode 2: The Jasmine Standalone Runner In this episode, I cover the basics of JavaScript testing with the Jasmine-BDD test framework, showing how to install and use the … Continue reading →

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Custom Jasmine Matchers For Clarity In Testing Backbone.js Models

Posted on September 3, 2011 by Derick Bailey

I’ve been writing some Jasmine specs for a sample Backbone.js application that I’m building. The application is a simple image gallery, and one of the features is the ability to navigate to through the image list with ‘next’ and ‘previous’ … Continue reading →

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Tracking down a strange issue with WatiN and IIS Express

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Steve Donie

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 Analysis and Design, Community, Continuous Integration, Kanban, Lean Systems, Management, Philosophy of Software, Principles and Patterns | 8 Comments