Last week I gave my “unit testing in the wild” presentation on LIDNUG. It was nice, and once the recording is up I’ll get all the info. But I wanted to talk about the experience. First of all: people, I’ve hit the jackpot. I’ve hit on one of the best ways to extract gold out
I’ll be presenting on the next LIDNUG’s online presentation, Thursday, July 22nd, 11:00AM to 12:30PM PDT/PST (GMT-8). My presentation will be about “Unit testing in the wild”. I’ll show how to test real code, that happens to be in real life. Expect the unexpected. Ok, and code examples in different technologies, like SharePoint, WCF and
Time to see the difference between Moles and Isolator code. Let’s start with the code under test (a webpart): public class NewMessagesCountWebPart : WebPart{ private Label lblNewMessages; protected void CreateChildControls(int i) { CreateChildControls(); } protected override void CreateChildControls() { lblNewMessages = new Label(); lblNewMessages.Text = GetMessageNumberText(); this.Controls.Add(lblNewMessages); base.CreateChildControls(); } private string GetMessageNumberText() { using (SPSite site = new SPSite(“http://sharepoint.typemock.com”)) { using (SPWeb web
Last week, I gave a presentation at the Israeli SharePoint user group on unit testing SharePoint applications. Slides below. Me closer (lurking in the shadows). As an objective observer, I compared the two and only alternatives for Isolation frameworks for SharePoint: Typemock Isolator and Microsoft Moles. And here’s my objective decision: Isolator wins by a
Let’s see – how did we get here? It was in October 2009. We were planning to go the SharePoint conference, and got a video camera. On the spur of the moment, Roy said: why don’t we do a webcast? And that’s how “This week in testing” came out to be. One shot recording, upload,