February 27, 2024
This webinar has started out with a common topic I discuss in my workshops: Test types. People always want to know about what is a unit test vs. component test. But it goes deeper than that. Everybody knows what an… Continue Reading…
February 13, 2024
I don’t get tired of hearing that question, because if I did, I’d need to sleep for a couple of years. It usually comes up with unit tests, as developers prepare to test their day-old or year-old code. That question… Continue Reading…
December 12, 2022
Yup, just in time for the holidays! Here’s the recording of the test framework webinar. While I’m going through feature comparison (leaving the basic ones) I’m putting more emphasis on how the features serve us, the meager uses. Oh, and… Continue Reading…
September 28, 2016
March 13, 2016
When we talked about understanding what we’re actually testing in error handling, we talked about the ability to understand the behavior of our code-under-test . Just to recall, here are the three types of error implementation, and what we can… Continue Reading…
October 3, 2023
One of the things that unit tests are best for is checking error conditions. While we want wider coverage of full happy flows, error conditions are sometimes hard to simulate in a big system, and unit tests excel at minimal setup to… Continue Reading…
December 25, 2015
The other posts in the series: Where we last left off, we discussed how to dismantle the static constructor (or initializer) booby traps. And I promised you an example. I’ll do that in C#, but the operations apply to any… Continue Reading…
October 15, 2017
Once more I get into a training session on unit testing, and once more I hear “It feels wrong to change my code just for testability.” My immediate reaction was “because the design you have right now is so good,… Continue Reading…
October 15, 2017
We tend to categorize different types of tests according to what they cover. Unit tests cover small portions of code, usually a method or a class, while we mock the rest of their interaction. Integration tests cover several components in… Continue Reading…
October 14, 2017
This post is part of the “Legacy Code to Testable Code” series. In the series we’ll talk about making refactoring steps before writing unit tests for legacy code, and how they make our life easier. Other posts include: In… Continue Reading…