unit testing - G.Winney 🖱

7 Results tagged on "unit testing":

Jan 6, 2022

Mocking MessageBox (or any static class) in WinForms

Unit testing a WinForms app is an uphill battle in the best of times, before you add in classes like MessageBox. Let's make the best of it.

surviving winforms mvp winforms unit testing levelup

Jun 8, 2021

Using MVP to test a WinForms app

If you find yourself supporting a WinForms application, you're likely to notice the tests... or lack thereof. Just because we may not have been so focused on automated tests and continuous integration when WinForms was younger, that doesn't mean we can't introduce them now. Better late than never!

dev question mocking unit testing

Dec 9, 2020

What is mocking a dependency?

When you're writing tests, you generally don't want to write to the database, email customers, and hit third-party API's. That's why we need to know how to mock dependencies!

c#nunit unit testing dotnetstandard

Apr 15, 2019

Using an application config file with a .NET Standard app and NUnit 3

Porting .NET Framework code to .NET Standard has been a learning experience, with some challenges too. This time I had a .NET Standard library that expected an application config file, but loading one from an NUnit test suite proved to be more difficult than it sounded at first.

erlang eunit meck unit testing

Mar 14, 2019

Keep your EUnit teardown logic as simple as possible!

I ran into an issue where an EUnit test fixture was failing with an error I hadn't seen before. It seemed to be coming from the meck mocking suite itself, and was reporting that it was 'already_started' and the tests would fail to run... that's a new one. So the obvious question was, WTF@#$ WHY????

vs4mac unit testing

Jul 6, 2017

How to Unit Test using Visual Studio for Mac (it's easy!)

While working a code kata last month, I paired with someone to do it in C#. It was a good opportunity for trying out Visual Studio for Mac. Although I've previously kicked the tires on VS4Mac a bit, one of the things I hadn't tried testing out was, well.. testing. As it turns out, it's pretty easy!

dev question tdd unit testing

Jun 26, 2017

What is TDD (and red-green-refactor)?

When you create a program, you should be thinking about how you’ll know it’s right when it’s done. How will you make sure it’s doing what it’s supposed to do, before it goes to production? TDD and red-green-refactoring can help!

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