Category Archives: Unit Testing

MSBuild Task for PartCover

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Geoff Lane

<![Rant[ I continue to lament the dearth of option for Test Coverage in the .NET world. In the Java world you have open source tools like Emma and Cobertura that are widely used and supported (and many more) as well … Continue reading →

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On Singletons

Posted on March 12, 2007 by Geoff Lane

The Singleton Pattern is one of the most widely used patterns from the Gang of Four (GoF) Desgin Patterns Book. One the reasons that it’s so widely used, I think, is because it’s also very easy to understand. The basic … Continue reading →

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Mocking .NET Objects with NUnit

Posted on March 10, 2007 by Geoff Lane

NUnit is my Unit Testing tool of choice for .NET development. Microsoft provides a unit testing framework but it only works with some higher-end versions of Visual Studio. They’re so similar that it’s almost ridiculous that Microsoft created their own … Continue reading →

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MSBuild with NUnit

Posted on November 28, 2006 by Geoff Lane

I’ve written about Unit Testing and Build Automation in the past, but mostly dealing with Java projects and tools (because I usually write about things I’m working on at the time). Well, I’ve started a .NET project for the first … Continue reading →

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jMock For Mocking Unit Tests

Posted on September 24, 2006 by Geoff Lane

Ok, so I might not exactly be on the cutting edge with this post, but I just started playing with jMock, a framework for creating Mock objects. Mock objects are used to isolate various layers of an application by providing … Continue reading →

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Relentless Build Automation

Posted on August 19, 2006 by Geoff Lane

How far is going to far when you are doing build automation? My answer to that question, is that it’s basically not possible to go to far. Any task that you need to do more than three times deserves automation. … Continue reading →

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