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Sunday, May 11, 2008 5:55 PM

Windows Live Agents Testing: Introduction

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 cycle goes on until you're finished. Although...
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007 7:44 PM

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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Saturday, May 05, 2007 12:57 PM

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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Saturday, April 21, 2007 5:05 PM

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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Monday, March 12, 2007 8:48 AM

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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Tuesday, February 13, 2007 3:55 AM

MS Patterns & Practices Performance Testing Guidance released

A new Patterns & Practices guide has been released. Covers performance testing, capacity plans, load testing, stress testing, test cases and testing under Visual Studio 2005. You can find the online guide at Codeplex .
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Sunday, December 03, 2006 10:15 PM

TDD and Testing

While cleaning a bit the hundreds of unread RSS feeds I've got, I've come to some very interesting articles related to Test Driven Development and testing in general. First, an article about unit testing , including a full example in ruby of testing...
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