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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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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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