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Aug 05 2009

Resource exhaustion and other uncommon testing scenarios

The idea of this post and part of the contents are from the fantastic book The Pragmatic Pogrammer . We don't usually test for most of the following resources: Anti-virus software : Some of them have aggressive heuristics that can confuse a binary...
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Jan 21 2009

Oxite: Good, but not clean

Oxite has been released not long ago and had some mentions, mostly because it was used at the official MIX site and because it is created using ASP.NET MVC . At first, the project looks fantastic. It includes a lot of blogging related stuff (metaweblogapi...
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Sep 19 2008

Auto-Launch Visual Studio Web Server when running tests

For security policies, in my job I don't have installed IIS, so I have to develop in ASP.NET by using Visual Studio 2008's (great) web server. But the problem is that whenever I want to make unit tests, I have to first launch the web service via...
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Aug 21 2008

Windows Live Agents Testing: Improving the Framework

This is part three and last on my WLA Testing posts. Read parts one and two if you haven't because we will go into more complex and advanced tests for our testing framework. In the previous post we built a basic framework containing better summary...
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May 24 2008

Windows Live Agents Testing: Building the Framework

Update : Part III of this posts available. In the previous WLA testing post I gave an introduction to what the platform provides for unit testing. We also mentioned that it was lacking some features and that I rebuilt the testing framework. So, I'll...
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May 11 2008

Windows Live Agents Testing: Introduction [UPDATED]

Update : Parts II and III of this posts available. Developing a Windows Live Agent is much like developing any software solution. Your team creates code, you test it, the customer tests it from the user side, you fix bugs and add functionality, and the...
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Aug 29 2007

To mock or not to mock, that is the question

I'm right now in the final weeks of the first phase of a project. We're very tight on schedule and having to leave a few features for the next phase. Although the project may be delayed because of the client, we want it to be because of them,...
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May 05 2007

NUnit 2.4.1 & Watin 1.1.0

There's a new version of NUnit out there, the 2.4.1 . I was eager to try the new 2.4 constrained assert model , because I feel it's more like natural language. Instead of repeating stuff you can read in the official documentation , I will just leave two...
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Apr 21 2007

VS2005 Unit Tests and copying files

Sometimes you need to copy some files to the output folder before executing your application from Visual Studio. This isn't a problem, unless you're going to execute a VS2005 unit test battery, because it creates a custom output folder before launching...
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Mar 12 2007

Testing cheat sheet & Windows Vista tweaking guide

I've just uploaded two pdfs I've found quite interesting: A Test heuristics cheat sheet , with lots of tests related to file system, dates, numbers, strings, web and others. Quite handy to check if we're doing all basic testing or we're missing for example...
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