Category Archives: TDD

When Is a Test a Unit Test?

By aschlapsi | Published: September 20, 2009
Developers write their tests usually with a unit test framework. Often those tests are slow and unreadable. Almost always the tests communicate with a database, a file system, a web service or other external resources. Developers stop executing the tests regularly and further they stop writing tests entirely, because “unit tests” are so slow and [...]
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RowTest Extension 1.2.3

By aschlapsi | Published: September 30, 2008
I released a new version of the RowTest Extension. I made following changes: The description of a Row attribute will be copied to the created test case. You can download it from the RowTest Extension page. Technorati Tags NUnit, nunitaddin, rowtest, unit-testing
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Detecting Testability Problems

By aschlapsi | Published: July 7, 2008
Roy Osherove wrote a new tool, called Depender. It inspects the types within an assembly and tries to find possible testability problems and places where you can already use seams to inject your own implementation. If you’re not familiar with the concept of seams you might want to read Michael Feather’s book “Working Effectively with [...]
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NUnit 2.4.7 includes RowTest Extension

By aschlapsi | Published: March 31, 2008
Charlie Poole released NUnit 2.4.7 today. This release eliminates some problems related to NUnit’s interaction with log4net and various bugs are also addressed. The release notes contain more detailed information. RowTest Extension 1.2.2 is packaged in the NUnit extension assemblies. It’s the first time that an externally developed addin is included in a release of NUnit. [...]
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RowTest Extension 1.2.2

By aschlapsi | Published: March 30, 2008
I released a new version of the RowTest Extension. I made following changes: null cannot be used as argument on .NET Framework 1.1. A new enum value SpecialValue.Null can be used instead. If the RowTest addin finds this value as argument the value will be translated to null. Fixed Bug: Common NUnit attributes like Category, Description etc. [...]
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RowTest Extension 1.2.1

By aschlapsi | Published: February 17, 2008
I released a new version of the RowTest Extension. I made following changes: Fixed Bug: SetUp and TearDown are not called on the RowTest test suite Created new Test project for functional tests and reorganized samples. You can download it from the RowTest Extension page. Technorati Tags NUnit, nunitaddin, rowtest, unit-testing
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RowTest Extension 1.2.0

By aschlapsi | Published: January 29, 2008
I released a new version of the RowTest Extension. I made following changes: Added build for .NET Framework 1.1. Assemblies are now strongly named. Added ExceptionMessage property to RowAttribute. It can be used to specify the message of an expected exception. Added TestName property to RowAttribute. It is used to provide a custom name of the test. If TestName [...]
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