Monthly Archive: February 2012

Feb
27

It Finds My Bugs for Me

Typemock vs Spell Checker

“It finds my bugs for me.” That’s what you’re going to say when you try Isolator V7. And now you can try Isolator V7 before it’s released to the public. Download Isolator V7 beta and start fighting bugs. Isolator V7 offers a new perspective on unit testing. In the past, you had to manually run …

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Feb
26

Typemock vs. a GPS

Isolator v GPS

Typemock Isolator V7 is like a GPS. It finds the bugs for you. But what did we do before GPS’s existed and what did we do before Isolator V7?   Download Isolator V7 beta now.

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Feb
23

Become the Hero in Your Company

Everybody wants to be a hero. Typemock is making it possible for you to be the hero in your company by introducing easy unit testing at a low price. Everyone knows that unit testing saves money and accelerates deliverability, helping your company release working software faster. But not all companies can afford the initial investment …

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Feb
22

Definitely Not Cool

Some features are not sexy, nor cool. But we need them. Many of the features we’re adding to Isolator come from the needs of our development team. It is usually the case that if our team needs a solution, others do as well. And this one plagued us  and our customers from the beginning. There …

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Feb
20

Discover A New Perspective on Unit Testing – Isolator V7

Want to learn the secrets of Typemock’s newest solution: Isolator V7. Isolator V7 puts a whole new perspective on unit testing. It will make unit testing much easier and help you catch more defects and help your company release their software faster. Check it out! Typemock Isolator V7 provides: Immediate feedback of newly introduced bugs …

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Feb
14

The Opposite of Mocking

Let me tell you a secret. I don’t like the word “mocking”. Why? Because “mocking” refers to the tools we use, rather than what we want to achieve, which is isolation. However, I’ve decided to let this one go a few years back due to public acceptance of the term. Still, this word has impacted …

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Feb
13

Webinar: Testing Untestable Legacy Code

How do you apply unit testing to existing code? Code that wasn’t meant to testing and normally breaks when 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 …

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Feb
08

Isolating Code: A Quick Intro to Typemock Isolator

Dustin Davis recently started using Typemock Isolator and has reviewed it on his site. According to Dustin, “the point is to isolate methods. TypeMock Isolator makes this pretty easy. Mocking frameworks have come a long way in the last 2 years and TypeMock is pretty impressive.”

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Feb
07

The Most Controversial Feature in Isolator V7

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Michael Feathers posted about “Taking Automated Tests Off The Pedestal”. The post generated quite a discussion, which really revolved around the time it takes to run tests in established teams. Michael talks about how the number of tests grows larger, and that the related time needed to run these tests becomes a “yoke around their …

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Feb
06

The Problems with Unit Testing Frameworks

Unit testing is essential in order to ensure that your code does what it’s supposed to do. But, as much as Typemock is a firm believer in unit testing, well, let’s be honest — it’s not fun. As our CEO recently put it in Dr. Dobbs, “Unit testing is like staying healthy,” argues Lopian. “Staying …

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