I am currently learning the ins and outs of the FakeItEasy mocking framework. I know my way around Moq, a simple and easy to use framework for the same purpose. This cheat sheet has examples for the most common use cases and explains the differences to Moq. Why use a mocking framework? A mocking …
Using a local build server with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is not that complicated. The build agent and a community edition of Visual Studio is all you need to get started. However, there is a little catch with this setup: You don’t get test coverage for your unit tests. You could install a bigger …
The “Given, When, Then” syntax of behaviour-driven development (short BDD) is a great way to get the business involved in the software development process. SpecFlow allows you to use this kind of example based specification with your .Net projects. Unfortunately, there are two obstacles that make the installation of SpecFlow and its commercial extension SpecFlow+ …
We started the migration to NUnit 3.0 as soon as the final version was released. Unfortunately, some bugs on Visual Studio Team Services ended this endeavour rather suddenly. We concentrated on shipping our product and postponed the upgrade. Now, with all our projects migrated, it is time to look back on the breaking changes that …
Good test data is as realistic as possible but isn’t from production. Leaks can happen on test systems as well and they are often less protected as production systems. Whenever you need test data you can start creating it from scratch or write a tool. Both options take time and effort. However, there is a …
I use the built-in developer tools of Google Chrome whenever I develop web applications. They offer me nearly everything I need for debugging and to solve problems with CSS. However, there is one spot where those tools fall short: Cookies. You can see the cookies and modify them. But in comparison to the other parts …
There are so many podcasts for developers that it is hard to keep up. In the last few months I spent a lot of time listening to podcasts and found 3 that I must share with you. Legacy Code Rocks My favourite podcast so far is Legacy Code Rocks hosted by Andrea Goulet and Scott …
The /etc/hosts (or hosts file) is a small text file that maps (domain-) names to IP addresses. It’s especially helpful when you want to use an easy to remember name for a computer in your home network. Another good reason to use it is for development purposes. With an entry in hosts file you can …
I use the service of Travis-CI now for a year. In that time the continuous integration has often pointed out problems I never had on my machine and let me quickly fix them, while I still know what the last change was about. If you don’t already use a service like Travis-CI you definitely should …
In exploratory testing one tries to figure out how well the system under test reacts to edge cases and special input data. It’s less structured than acceptance or unit tests and therefore may help you find different kinds of problems. Good input data is not all it takes, but it can help you a lot. …