Parametrised tests help you to create many test cases without writing a lot of test methods. This approach saves you a lot of time and increases the quality of your tests. Let us look how we can parametrise our tests in NUnit.
At the spring cleaning of my computers, I noticed that one device I had nearly no disk space left. After removing old files and the usual suspects (like Windows updates) I found that Docker uses the most space.
While Docker Desktop for Windows showed me a disk usage of around 50 GB, TreeSize found 124 GB - far too much for the few containers that run on this machine. To clean-up the storage, I first tried the prune command to remove unused data:
At the user group site, we use GitVersion to turn our git history into a Semantic Version number. After we switched to main as the default branch, our build failed with this error message:
ERROR [****] An unexpected error occurred: System.InvalidOperationException: Could not find a 'develop' or 'master' branch, neither locally nor remotely.
For some posts code is not enough. An animated image that shows the effect of a code snipped helps much more than hundreds words of additional explanation. But how can we create animations like this one I made for the progress bar example?
If you commit a file to a Git repository, it stays there forever. Even when you remove it, Git keeps it around in the .git folder – otherwise you could not go back to a version where this file was part of your project.
In a Linux console we can use the clear command to get rid of all text output in that windows. This is a great help to quickly get an empty terminal without opening another console.
If we try to run the same command in the CMD on Windows, we get an error about a missing command. For a long time, I accepted this behaviour as a lack of functionality in the Windows terminal. However, recently I wondered if I just missed a command and started looking for a solution.
SQL Server offers an integrated alarming system that informs you by email when something goes wrong. In the past this helped us find problems early on and react quickly – before we lost data. Let us look how we can activate this feature in SQL Server.
After the installation and the enforced reboot of my machine, Docker Desktop for Windows did not bother to start. I got the Docker command line application in the Command Prompt, but the hello-world example ended with an error:
One problem that annoyed me for months was the missing code coverage in our build jobs in Azure DevOps. The metric vanished from one day to another for the .Net 4.x projects. Whatever I tried with the options in the Visual Studio Test task, all I could produce was this link to the Microsoft documentation:
After updating some NuGet packages, one of our .net 4.7.2 projects throw this error when we try to build it:
Error: Your project does not reference ".NETFramework,Version=v4.7.2" framework. Add a reference to ".NETFramework,Version=v4.7.2" in the "TargetFrameworks" property of your project file and then re-run NuGet restore.