Archives for August 2009
Gaps I found while dog-fooding Typemock Isolator
I have been dog-fooding Typemock Isolator with the Metric Dashboard. There are quite a few gaps in the product that I have found while using it.
Before I go into the details of the gaps, I must point out that all these features exists in the older API’s (that are still available), but they […]
Unit Testing the Metric Dashboard – Part 4
Continuation of unit testing the Metric Dashboard.
Debugging via Unit Tests
Sometimes, it is necessary to debug our code from our unit tests. Having the unit tests are great as they setup the scenario for us. Here is what I saw when debugging a test.
Then I remembered – the colored line around the method is a […]
Unit Testing the Metric Dashboard – Part 3
Continuation of unit testing the Metric Dashboard.
Watching for new files
The Dashboard listens to the test result folder for new files. As this is done in another thread, the test must wait for the file to be read and processed in order to verify that the feature works. In the older versions of Typemock there was […]
Unit Testing the Metric Dashboard – Part 2
This is a continuation of the unit testing the Metric Dashboard series, you can find part 1 here
Passing a fake object to constructor
At one point I had to pass a fake object into the constructor. Here I used a feature that will be available in our next versions. This feature currently called intelliTest makes it […]
Unit Testing the Metric Dashboard – Part I
I have talked about unit testing the Metric Dashboard, today I had some time to dive into the task.
I decided to test the Bugs Caught feature of the Visual Studio Addin, I caught two bugs, the first has to do with the order of reading the trx files, the second had to do with saving […]
Unit Testing the Metric Dashboard
While developing the Metric Dashboard, I on purposely did not write any unit tests. I wanted to feel and remember what is like to develop without unit test and see how to write the unit tests after the deed
Manually Unit Testing
The first issue that I had with developing is that I found myself […]
Bug Fix Time not a good metric
After a few weeks using the BugFixTime metric, I found that metric too hard to understand and leaves the developer and managers clueless to what that have to do to fix the metric.
We have done some internal thinking and some feedback and have created the next generation of this tool built to help teams develop […]