More on Creating Stubs for Legacy Code – Testing Techniques 7

In my last blog, I talked about dealing with the badly behaved untestable(1) SitePropertiesManager class and how to create stubs by…

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Principles for Creating Maintainable and Evolvable Tests

Having [automated] unit/integration/functional/… tests is great but it is too easy for them to become a hindrance, making any change…

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Creating Stubs for Legacy Code – Testing Techniques 6

Any one who reads this blog will probably have realised that at present I’m working on a project that contains…

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The Three Ways to Work with Code

Obviously you read code more often than you write it. Nothing new here. This fact is brought up often when…

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Unit Testing Using Mocks – Testing Techniques 5

My last blog was the fourth in a series of blogs on approaches to testing code, demonstrating how to create…

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Regular Unit Tests and Stubs – Testing Techniques 4

My last blog was the third in a series of blogs on approaches to testing code and discussing what you…

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What Should you Unit Test? – Testing Techniques 3

I was in the office yesterday, talking about testing to one of my colleagues who was a little unconvinced by…

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The Misuse of End To End Tests – Testing Techniques 2

My last blog was the first in a series of blogs on approaches to testing code, outlining a simple scenario…

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Testing Techniques – Not Writing Tests

There’s not much doubt about it, the way you test your code is a contentious issue. Different test techniques find…

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