Category · 29 posts
Typemock
2010
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A Farewell to Typemock
Today is both a sad and happy day for me. It was my last day working at Typemock . Starting January, I’ve decided to go on a new journey. More on that in the next post . I’ve been at Typemock exactly three years, the…
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Join me for a live webinar on unit testing with Isolator++ this thursday
In three days, this Thursday , I’ll be giving a half hour online webinar on our latest product, Isolator++ and some usage patterns with it on C++ code. I might even do a little song in honor of C++ – still need to…
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new Test Lint Beta – with command line runner
There is a new version of Test Lint – a test review tool for visual studio. It will check your unit tests for common problems and teach you on making your tests more readable, maintainable and trustworthy. The addin is…
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Two Cool Typemock Contests
This week we announced two cool contests: Extend Test Lint – create your own rules for unit test reviews Test Lint is one of our new products, and it’s free . It checks your unit tests as you type them, looking for…
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First Typemock Academy - 4 days from now
This April 27th marks a special occasion for Typemock – the first Typemock Partner Conference is about to take place in Oslo, Norway. Some special treats are expected (including a very cool after party), and Uncle Bob…
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Introducing Typemock Test Lint
We just released a new, free product - Typemock Test Lint, click here for all the gory details . It’s a just-in-time unit testing coach that looks at your code as you type and looks for common unit testing errors. Or,…
2009
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TypeMOQ API
I was fiddling around with the typemock API, see what it would belike to use it in a more MOQ like manner: to support this, all the code you need, including the Faker class exists here . you’d need to reference the…
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Introducing Typemock IntelliTest
We just released the latest version (5.4.2) of Typemock Isolator, with one cool Addon built in - Typemock Intellitest . what’s it about? in one word: productivity. Here's what it does: Play video Typemock Isolator…
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Preventing fragile tests – how can isolation frameworks help or hinder your goal?
One of the things that inhibits unit tests in organizations is the idea of fragile tests. a Fragile test is a test that can easily break when the production code changes. That’s not to say that tests should never break…
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Introducing Typemock Racer 1.0 – Find multithreaded deadlocks
I’m proud to announce the official release of Typemock Racer - A Parallel Inspection engine for your multithreaded code. Think Microsoft Chess, only it’s available today, for visual studio 2008, and will continually be…
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Preview: Placeholder arguments and custom argument checkers
here is a glimpse of the feature the guys are working on at the moment. I call it “Placeholder Arguments”. It’s a variation of the “how do you allow the user to check parameters passed to a method?” question when…
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Adding Method-Missing support to VB.NET using CTru and Typemock Open-AOP
I am finding cooler and cooler stuff to achieve using the CThru Engine. A few hours ago I suddenly thought : “CThru intercepts all calls in the system. what happens if they are calls to methods that don’t exist?”…
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Looking for an Agile developer, again!
We’re hiring . That’s right. you heard me. In the midst of all this trouble, we’re looking for one great developer that can join our team at Typemock. First, you have to live in Israel. How to submit your CV If you’re…
2008
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Unit Testing in silverlight land with Typemock Isolator
I’ve been asked quite a lot recently whether one can write unit tests and isolate logical code that runs inside a silverlight application. Up until today my initial answer was ‘no’ because silverlight runs under…
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Isolation frameworks – lessons from the wild
I’m in the process of teaching another TDD master class in Oslo this week, and in the past two days we went over the major Isolation frameworks in .NET (I refuse to say Mocking frameworks anymore. the “Mock” work is too…
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Isolation Syntax for VB.NET - Your comments please
I'm working on adding a VB.NET Friendly syntax for Typemock Isolator. If you're into VB, I'd love your input on the usability of this API and how to make it better. We'll start going through several basic scenarios that…
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Announcing Isolator for Sharepoint with a free full license for bloggers
Time for a freebie! We’re announcing today about a new product: Isolator for sharepoint – which allows unit testing sharepoint code without needing sharepoint installed. A good article on this can be found here “Huh?”…
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Typemock is looking for agile developers
It's that time again. We're Hiring. Typemock Is looking for a developer with good .NET skills, and a passion for agile development. You don't have to know TDD, but it's a plus. Knowing some C++ is a must, but most of…
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Isolator Feature Focus: Faking Collections
Another cool feature in Isolator is the ability to fake values that will be returned from custom collections (anything that inherits from IEnumerable as long as it is not in mscorlib - for example - sharepoint lists).…
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Isolator Feature Focus: Duck Typing and Isolate.Swap
Typemock Isolator 5.1.1 has been released, and this release brings with it some awesome (seriously) features that are unique fro any other framework I've seen. a good overview of features can be found here . The…
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SharpMock 0.1 ?
James, I would love to see you take the idea of “SharpMock” to the next level . If not anything else, it would be an interesting challenge to write about. James took PostSharp and started looking at the possibility of…
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Isolator feature focus – Advanced Debugger Support for fakes
Two features that Typemock Isolator has make the debugging experience with it very different than any other isolation framework: 1) Highlight fake method during debugging When stepping into a method that is being faked…
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Isolator feature focus: Recursive Fakes
Here’s another feature Typemock Isolator has that no one else currently has: the ability to return fake objects from properties recursively (without the use of an auto mocking container for such a feat). this saved a…
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Isolator feature focus: Live objects in unit tests
Here is one feature that sets Typemock Isolator apart from all the other frameworks, that has nothing to do with legacy code: Live Objects. This feature allows you to just “new” up an instance of an object, if you can,…
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Thread Visualization with Typemock Racer
Here’s what you can find on the latest typemock racer build. I think it’s pretty cool. Embedded Flash media from the original post is no longer playable.
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Finding Deadlocks with ReaderWriterLock and Typemock Racer
This feature was just added to the Racer Alpha . Given the following method: Can you see a potential for deadlock in this method? Here’s the answer . I wonder if it will find this one as well ..
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Typemock Isolator with AAA syntax
We've just posted a preview of the next Isolator API coming out in august. It is AAA-style (Arrange, act, assert) and has many changes. We need your input so head on over, read it and tell us your thoughts . This is the…
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Introducing Depender - Testability Problem Finder
Update : Here's how you can extend Depender with your own dependency rules Depender is a tool that I created to illustrate several concepts both for my book and both for my training classes. I think it should prove…
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Injecting Typemock Stubs and Mocks using the StructureMap container in a unit test
Someone asked for examples of how you'd inject stubs and mocks when you'd like your object under test to use a container such as StructureMap . here are a couple of simple tests to show this using Typemock Isolator .…