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Cucumber, A Brief Overview
Cucumber I’ve found Cucumber to be a pretty nice way of doing high level acceptance/integration testing. It’s also the first time I’ve ever thought that ATDD (acceptance test driven development) is actually achievable. The idea is that you write your … Continue reading
The Ruby/Rails Life – My Rails 3 Stack – Part 2
Rails Deployment & Testing There are some really nice tools available for deployment and testing rails. Below is a brief description of some of the ones I’ve been using with success. Capistrano I remember in the early days of my … Continue reading
Testing assumptions with preconditions
While driving design with unit tests, I often break behaviors out into separate classes, both to increase cohesion, and as a side effect, increase testability. Occasionally, I run into situations where I have some sort of environmental variable that never … Continue reading
Unit Testing [Serializable]
A common struggle with unit testing is figuring when to just assume somebody else’s code works. One such example is serializability: for simple classes, it should “just work” so we shouldn’t need to write a unit test for each of … Continue reading
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Review: Pragmatic Unit Testing In C# with NUnit (2nd Edition)
I’ve written hundreds of tests, read dozens of articles and listened to several presentations on unit testing, but until recently had never actually read a book dedicated to the subject. In reviewing my options, I was told repeatedly that I … Continue reading
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Debug It!
If there’s one thing I like about programming computers, it’s the ability to tell a machine exactly what to do. –insert Skynet reference here– With that said, I wanted to learn some more tips, tricks and techniques to figure out … Continue reading
Working With Assertions Made on Arguments in Rhino Mocks
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
Why is CruiseControl.Net Hiding My Test Results?
Some time ago, I noticed a CruiseControl.Net build report with thousands of unit tests passed, zero failed and a dozen or so skipped, suddenly showing that no tests were run: I immediately thought somebody did something really bad. After some … Continue reading
How I Approach a Defect
Lately I’ve been tracking some of the steps I go through in a given day or week. I was fixing a bug the other day when I decided that I should write down all the mental notes I refer to … Continue reading
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HTTP Error Codes in WatiN 1.3
One of the biggest surprises when I started working with WatiN was the omission of a mechanism to check for error conditions. A partial solution using a subclass has been posted before, but it doesn’t quite cover all the bases. … Continue reading
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