unit testing - Grant Winney

7 Results tagged on "unit testing":

Mar 10, 2020

Yes, it's possible to test a WinForms app... using MVP

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!...

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Apr 15, 2019

How to use 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....

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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????...

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Feb 27, 2019

When an assert isn't assertive enough (or using the wrong macro in an EUnit test)

I stumbled on an unexpected surprise while cleaning up some EUnit tests. A test passed even though it was obviously wrong and absolutely should've failed. It took a few moments to realize what was wrong, and it had to do with test functions vs generators, and how test macros are defined....

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Jul 06, 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!...

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Oct 03, 2014

Understanding and Eliminating Technical Debt (Mark Heath)

I would imagine most developers have heard of “technical debt” by now. 20 years ago, Ward Cunningham explained to his boss about the benefits of refactoring a piece of software he was developing… financial software. (Get it? Financial Debt… Technical Debt…)...

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May 31, 2014

Mocking Dependencies (silly dependency! um... not that kind of mocking)

After hunting down some obscure bug at work that would’ve been more apparent with a good test, I started back-filling old code with unit tests. That meant removing some dependencies on things I didn’t actually need to test - in other words, mocking....

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