Category Archives: Testing

IndyNDA – Testing Code From The Pit Of Despair

It’s the second week of February so if you read this blog with any frequency you know what that means.  That’s right, IndyNDA is this Thursday (9 February)!  This month we’re fortunate to have Phil Japikse returning to discuss testing … Continue reading

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Going Underground: Microsoft Moles

Despite having been around for several years I hadn’t heard about Microsoft’s Moles framework until a few months ago when one of my teammates mentioned it during the 2011 Indy GiveCamp. I was interested in learning more about it at … Continue reading

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October Speaking Engagement – Indy TFS

I’ll be presenting Web performance and load testing in Visual Studio 2010 to the Indy TFS user group on October 5, 2011. In this talk we’ll explore some of the basic test management capabilities in Visual Studio 2010 before diving in to building and executing both Web performance and load tests. Continue reading

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NUnit and WatiN

Today a colleague was trying to diagnose why some long neglected UI tests were failing.  He quickly discovered that the tests weren’t failing because of changes to the code under test but because our UI test framework was misbehaving.  Since … Continue reading

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Web Performance & Load Testing in Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio 2010 Premium and Ultimate include tools for authoring and executing a variety of test types. This post introduces the basics of test management, Web performance testing, and load testing in Visual Studio 2010. Continue reading

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Filed under Environments, Load, Performance, Practices, Software Development, Testing, Visual Studio 2010

Test Framework Philosophy

A key aspect of deciding between unit test frameworks is a matter of philosophy about what makes unit tests readable. Continue reading

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