To me, developers that are not applying TDD practices during their day-to-day job always seem more in a hurry than developers that do apply red-green-refactor. In their hurry, they’re the first to cut corners and start making messes while they rush to their goal. A while ago it dawned to me why that is. They […]
Read MoreI just want to quickly point out a tool that I?ve been playing with for a couple of days now, named AutoTest.NET. Its an open-source tool that originates from a popular tool in the Ruby community called ZenTest, which basically runs all your valuable unit tests when you save your source files or when you […]
Read MoreI get so much use out of this handy dandy little macro that I just had to share it. It is a simple little Visual Studio macro that should work in 2010 or 2008 to change a string like this: ?When writing a unit test? into this: When_writing_a_unit_test And do it in a single keystroke. […]
Read MoreOver the last few years, the practice of Test-Driven Design and Behavior-Driven Design has increased in acceptance, even if its practice has not increased in equal proportion. From my perspective, specification-based design is a natural way to develop software. Each developer has a preferred framework, and a framework they loathe. In the .NET world, there […]
Read MoreSometimes I think things are more complicated than they really are. I got my head into a bind recently when I had some code that I really wanted under test in a Controller Action. My first thought was “Crap, this is going to be rough”. Mainly I was still thinking of my time trying to […]
Read MoreWhat is an Auto Mocking Container? This post started to get a little long, so I won?t re-explain the concept. Joshua Flanagan wrote a nice overview at his Los Techies blog: Auto mocking Explained. My post is mainly here to describe the Unity version of an automocking container I threw together. In Jan 2009 I […]
Read MoreAlthough I made a very minor attempt at making StatLight a “for-sale” product, I knew when I started that open-source was most likely going to be my long term path for StatLight. What is it? (Silverlight Testing Automation Tool) StatLight is a tool developed for automating the setup, running, and gathering results of Silverlight unit […]
Read MoreUPDATE: I apologize…the original wrapper did not allow injected dependencies. I have fixed this bug and updated the sample.
I have been using StructureMap.AutoMocking with MSpec (Machine.Specifications) and Rhino.Mocks for a few months now. Although I am very comfortable with the patterns that emerge from using the frameworks together, introducing StructureMap.Automocking to other developers is sometimes challenging. I decided to wrap the details of the container to make the intention clearer and explanation easier. I have started using this wrapper in my projects, and have found it makes building up specifications more efficient in my daily coding.
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