Unit testing anti-patterns: Structural Inspection
This post is about the practice of Structural Inspection in unit testing and why I personally consider it an anti-pattern.
Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests Without Mocks
This is a review of the Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests book (GOOS for short) in which I’ll show how to implement the sample project from the book in a way that doesn’t require mocks to be tested. Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests Without Mocks Let me first explain why I’m doing a review of this book. If you read this blog regularly, you probably noticed that I’m pretty much against using mocks in tests.
C# functional extensions NuGet library
I’ve created a NuGet package out of the functional extensions I wrote about in this post series and in my Pluralsight course. C# functional extensions NuGet library Thanks to one of the listeners of my Functional C# course, I finally made a separate NuGet package which is based on the Result class I wrote about awhile ago. The package contains the following classes: Result ResultExtensions
Pragmatic integration testing
The topic described in this article is part of my Unit Testing Pluralsight course. When trying to break down unit testing, the bigger picture stays incomplete if you overlook the subject of integration testing. In this post, we’ll discuss how to make the most out of your integration tests with pragmatic integration testing. Integration tests are tests that, unlike unit tests, work with some of the volatile dependencies directly (usually with the database and the file system).
Pragmatic unit testing
The topic described in this article is part of my Unit Testing Pluralsight course. This post is about pragmatic unit testing: how to get the most out of your unit test suite. Pragmatic unit testing: black-box vs white-box Pragmatic unit testing is about investing only in the tests that yield the biggest return on your effort. In the previous posts, we discussed what traits a valuable test possess (high chance of catching a regression, low chance of producing a false positive, fast feedback) and how various styles of unit testing (functional, state verification, collaboration verification) differ in terms of their value proposition.
Styles of unit testing
The topic described in this article is part of my Unit Testing Pluralsight course. In this post, I’ll describe different styles of unit testing and compare them in terms of their value proposition. Styles of unit testing and their value proposition There are 3 major styles of unit testing. The first one is functional, where you feed an input to the system under test (SUT) and check what output it produces:
Database Delivery Best Practices Pluralsight course
My new course Database Delivery Best Practices for Pluralsight went live. Database Delivery Best Practices Database delivery is still something many programmers struggle with. It’s not always clear how to deal with the database schema differences in different environments, how to resolve merge conflicts that inevitably arise when more than one programmer works with the DB, how to make sure you don’t break the other teams' applications when you refactor the database structure and so on.
Unit tests value proposition
The topic described in this article is part of my Unit Testing Pluralsight course. I’m starting a new series which will be devoted to the topic of unit testing. In it, I’ll try to define what a valuable test is and show how the use of mocks fits into this picture. I’ll also describe the approach that I think has the best return of investments in terms of the value it provides.
7 notable NDC London 2016 talks
This post is a review of some talks from NDC London 2016 that I found interesting.
Immutable architecture
The topic of immutable architecture described here is part of my Applying Functional Principles in C# Pluralsight course. In this post, I’d like to show a common approach to introducing immutability to your code base on an architectural level. Immutability, State, and Side Effects Before we start, let’s take a minute to define the terms. Most likely, you have already encountered them but I want to make sure we are on the same page here.
