Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Thanks to... Chris Kimball and NPR for their tips that helped in my quest to bake the perfect Raspberry pie for The Susan. The secret, as with all things, is in the alcohol you use. Seriously, the secret to a light crust is using more alcohol and less water. ...
Tags: Trivia, xUnit
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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: C#, 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: C#, 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.
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Tags: Coding, TDD, xUnit
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