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 idea is that you control the creation of an ...

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 version. (See one of my previous posts for more information on ...

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 time in a while so I want to solve some ...

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 a fake implementation that will mimic the behavior of the real ...

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. Three times is my heuristic. The longer and more complex ...