Jan
31
It’s that time of year when the US president gives the annual State of the Union. Since Mr. Obama did not mention unit testing, (I suspect because of homeland security issues) I thought I’d give you my view of where unit testing is in the beginning of 2012. Unit testing and TDD are getting traction. …
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Jan
30
Want to help Typemock and the unit testing community. Contribute to Typemock’s latest project. We’re currently developing a brand new way to do unit testing – it’s a whole new perspective. I can’t tell you what it’s going to do but sign up for our upcoming webinars to learn more. We need you to choose. …
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Jan
30
By Gil Zilberfeld, Product Manager, Typemock, February 1, 2012 When: 10:00 AM ET, 3:00 PM UK, 5:00 PM Israel – Click here to see when the webinar is in your time zone. Software testing isn’t just a task for QA. In order to prevent bugs and release quality code to market, you also need developer …
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Jan
25
Easy question, right? You DEBUG. Not so fast, my friend. Actually, if you think about it, debugging is not so fast. Pretty slow, really. I’d rather do as quickly as possible. Let’s get back to the question: A test (or three) failed, because you’ve changed the production code. How do you fix it? Tests’ primary …
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Jan
23
Everybody has legacy code. How do you apply unit testing to existing code? Code that wasn’t meant to testing. This is a hardcore session, where we take an open source application and add tests to it. In the process, we’ll refactor the code, discuss readability, and where to even begin. This is an intensive demonstration …
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Jan
16
When you start unit testing, you’re going to bump into problems, especially when you already have an existing code base. But we’ve created Typemock Isolator just for that. Discover how to use Typemock Isolator effectively for you and your team. In this webinar we’ll show you how to tackle day-to-day problems you’ll find, and how …
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Jan
11
I’ve recently read Phil Haack’s post about “structuring unit tests”. And then Ayende’s response. I’ve also went over the comments on both posts, and clearly, most were in favor of having some kind of method to structure or organize test code. Who’s right? I used to work with someone who was very VERY organized. His …
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Jan
11
According to Forrester Research, bringing software testing into the development role (including unit testing) will lower defects and increase code quality. They also noted that even teams that haven’t fully integrated Agile practices can still benefit from developer testing. According to Forrester, finding bugs early saves time and money later. By engaging in development testing, …
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Jan
10
When: Wednesday, January 11 at 10:00 AM ET, 15:00 GMT (UK), 20:30 PM IST (India) You may have already started unit testing or at least understand the basics. But there’s one large obstacle that stands in your way: dependencies. Most code was not written to be easy to test. How can you test dependencies? Join …
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Jan
03
ThoughtWork’s Brett Schuchert spoke yesterday at the Oklahoma City .Net Users’ group about legacy refactoring using Typemock Isolator. Brett discussed why you might want to refactor and test legacy code, testability, Legacy Refactoring Using Isolator from Brett L. Schuchert on Vimeo.
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