I'm trying to learn how to do Unit Testing and Mocking. I understand some of the principles of TDD and basic testing. However, I'm looking at refactoring the below code that was written without tests and am trying to understand how it needs to change in order to make it testable. public class AgentRepository { public Agent Select(in...
I have used the RhinoMocks product for quite some time and have been quite happy with the product - never had a reason to look elsewhere really. I was recently asked by the good folks at TypeMock to give their product a whirl and was wondering what other developers opinions are about Typemock Isolator. Are there any other isolation/moc...
A month ago I finished reading the book "Art of Unit Testing" and today I finally had time to start using Rhino Mocks with unit testing a service that sends/receives messages to devices (UDP) and saves/loads data from the database. Off course I want to isolate the database and the UDP communication. For example for database access, we ...
I have read this: http://martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html My concepts about a stub and a mock are clear. I understand the need of isolation frameworks like moq, rhinomocks and like to create a mock object. As mocks, participate in actual verfication of expectations. But why do we need these frameworks to create stubs. I wou...
I realize this has been asked before, but the last time was in mid 2008. If you were starting a new project right now, which one would you use and why? What are their strengths/weaknesses regarding readability, usability, maintainability, and overall robustness? ...
Hi, Can you recommend me a way or tell me the most common practice to create a sample portion of a data-base as an xml file so that I can use it from my unit tests without worrying about Db state to be persistent? Is there any frame work to overcome such a scenerio including the functionality that after each test I can get back to the ...