Monday, July 21st, 2008
Ever discovered people on your team have gotten into the habit of writing slow unit tests? Tests that take half a minute to execute, that bog down both your development and your build server?
With xUnit.net you can extend the Fact attribute to set the test timeout. In the example below ...
Tags: TDD, xUnit
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
I was mucking around with code snippets over the weekend - it killed the time in between feeling sick. As my unit testing framework of choice is XUnit I thought I've have a go at adding a snippet or two around that.
xUnit already comes with a nice code snippet for ...
Tags: Code snippets, TDD, Visual Studio, xUnit
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
The System.Data.Linq.DataContext class exposes a TextWriter as the Log property allowing you to monitor the SQL that's getting executed under the covers. The trivial usage of this is to simply set the property to Console.Out and watch the results.
Given that I was adding the Enterprise Library 4.0 Logging Block to ...
Tags: Coding, EntLib, Linq, xUnit
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Brad's blog announces the release of xUnit 1.0 RTM. Well worth the wait I'm sure.
Technorati Tags: Unit testing,TDD,xUnit
Tags: Coding, TDD, xUnit
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
It was finally time to re-pave my machine which had been getting a bit sluggish of late. I started off with Peter's machine repave post and created my own backlog of things I install. A while back a blogged about tools for personal coding projects which proved pretty popular. I ...
Tags: Coding, PowerShell, Visual Studio, xUnit
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
When I was testing the behavior of MSTest's DeploymentItem attribute I relied on fact that MSTest executes tests in a predictable order to figure out how the attribute works. Typically it seems to execute test methods in the order they appear in the class. You should never ever rely on this ...
Tags: Gotchas, TDD, xUnit
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
xUnit is the latest greatest unit testing framework from Jim Newkirk, one of the original authors of NUnit. Jim, Brad and the CodePlex team have finally released it on xUnit.net. I went to a talk by Brad on xUnit a while back it's got lots of cool new features and has ...
Tags: Coding, News & events, TDD, xUnit
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