Tag Archives: mock-objects

Grails Testing Acegi Security

Posted on September 1, 2008 by Geoff Lane

Almost every web application I create needs some form of user authentication and authorization. Grails provides a great plugin system that allows you to extend the base framework to provide these kinds of features. My current favorite security plugin for … 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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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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