Category Archives: TDD

“Hero Mode Refactoring” AKA Enemy Of Brown Field Development

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Ryan Svihla

What do I mean by “Hero Mode Refactoring”?  We’ve all worked with code that wasn’t easily made testable. Most of the time we see a big ball of mud and have no idea where to begin. Sometimes however we have … Continue reading →

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Updated TDD Productivity Plug-in for Resharper

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Eric Hexter

  I first want to thank JetBrains for being pretty awesome.  I have complained a lot about how they are constantly chaining their APIs to Resharper and as a result it makes keeping plugins very hard to maintain but they … Continue reading →

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Reflecting reality

Posted on June 8, 2009 by Jimmy Bogard

Reading over the latest MSDN magazine issue, I’m always encouraged when I see something that I consider important on the cover, Test-Driven Design.  It covers one of the more difficult technical aspects of TDD, which is mock objects.  It took … Continue reading →

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Subverting TDD as a design tool

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Jimmy Bogard

So TypeMock can now mock DateTime.Now.  Replacing the functionality of DateTime.Now, which is an external dependency, was one of the first issues that taught me the value of TDD.  With TypeMock replacing DateTime.Now, I get all the benefits of unit … Continue reading →

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PTOM – Brownfield development – Making your dependencies explicit

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Gabriel Schenker

Introducing DI and “poor man’s DI” Introduction Greenfield Development happens when you start a brand new project, as in, clean slate development. No legacy code lying around, no old development to maintain. You’re starting afresh, from scratch, from a blank … Continue reading →

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Disambiguating a test fixture

Posted on March 16, 2009 by Jimmy Bogard

One of the more disappointing things I found reading the xUnit Test Patterns book was how much one tool could shape my views on a concept.  NUnit, as great and simple tool as it is, doesn’t quite match the other … Continue reading →

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BDD on Creatine

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Mo Khan

In an attempt to further understand BDD, I chose to revise the code from my previous post after receiving some amazing advice from two people I regard highly (Scott & JP). I should state that this is my interpretation of … Continue reading →

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BDD on Steroids

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Mo Khan

In the last couple of weeks I had a chance to sprinkle some of JP’s syntactic sugar, all over my projects. It’s amazing how much more concise my units test have become. I’ve had a couple of issues where I … Continue reading →

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How to Configure Selenium RC for Use In C# NUnit Tests

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Chris Taylor

When I set about integrating Selenium into my test suites, I found all the information I needed to do that with but had to hunt and peck through my google searches to find it.  So, as a point of reference, … Continue reading →

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True Swiss don’t like mocks!

Posted on January 29, 2009 by Gabriel Schenker

Preface Hey, we Swiss are proud of our products! Have you ever owned a real Swiss Watch like this nice Rolex shown in the first picture? Or did you ever enjoy the delicious taste of Swiss chocolate? What about the … Continue reading →

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