Archives for May 2008
Mocking frameworks - dream feature
There are some developers SHOUTING, that mocking static and non-virtual methods is a big No-No. Roy, is calling them dogmatic.
Come on guys, the most requested feature from Rhino.Mocks is the ability to mock non-virtual and static members, and Oren has even implemented these when possible (MarshalByRef Objects). I am sure that if it was easy, […]
Interesting Unit Testing Survay
According to a Telerik Survey (brought to me by Avi Kaye) Unit Testing is still not mainstream.
I am not sure how many people voted, and although the result might surprise some of you, these results confirm what I think about the implementation of automated unit tests.
Unit testing is still quite difficult and there is a […]
Typemock Isolator 4.2.4 is available
Typemock Isolator 4.2.4 is available for download.This is a patch release with many bug fixes.
“Invalid Operation Exception” when working with NHybernate and XML serialization was fixed.
Complex LINQ queries are now mocked correctly.
Manual assembly loading does not cause an exception. AssemblyResolve event fires correctly.
RepeatAlways now works correctly following WhenArgumentsMatch.
Returning values of types that inherit from […]
Ruby Style Mocking in .NET
I had a great discussion with a college about the difficulties of understanding the technical parts of the automated Mocking frameworks.
The one point that takes some time to grasp is the fact that methods are written within the test that are not actually called, but are stubs/mocks that will be called at a later […]