Category Archives: Testing
Structuring an MVC app for easy testing
Introduction In this article I want to give you some handles to structure your MVC applications in such a way that they become easier to test. The article isn’t really about MVC, but if you want more information on MVC, I … Continue reading
Unit Testing your Repositories–the code
In the previous post I started to write about how to set up your unit tests in the repository code. The title was (maybe a bit misleading) “Unit testing your Repositories”. So I had to promise to write an article … Continue reading
Unit testing your Repositories
The problem We have created our data layer, and of course we want to test it. It is very hard to use a (physical) database to test your code. There are some problems with this (commonly used) approach: Unit tests … Continue reading
Mocking functionality using MOQ
What is wrong with this code? class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { DateTime dob = new DateTime(1967, 7, 9); int days = CalcDays(dob); Console.WriteLine($”Days: {days}”); } private static int CalcDays(DateTime dob) { return (DateTime.Today – dob).Days; } … Continue reading
Handling a “Microservices” Project
I’m currently working on a big application that has been built up using microservices. The application is composed of small(ish) apps that compose the application. The idea is that these small apps work together to create the final application. This … Continue reading
Grasshopper Unit testing
“I have created my code, split out some functionality and written the tests. But the mocks have become a real mess, and much more work than I had thought it would be. Can you help me, Sensei?” “Of course. Show … Continue reading
Let IntelliTest generate your tests!
We corrected our function to calculate the GCD so that it now runs correctly. But is the function correct in all the cases? Have we really tested everything? It would be nice if there was a tool that could tell … Continue reading
How to set up a Parameterized Unit Test
In my previous post we saw how to set up unit testing using Visual Studio. The code we want to test is a (simple) function to calculate the greatest common divisor, and we wrote our first test. The test we … Continue reading
Setting up unit testing
Introduction In the previous posts I talked about unit testing. I gave some background, and I explained the flow of Test-driven Development (TDD). So now is the time to set things up. In this article I will use the calculation … Continue reading
Test Driven Development
I talked about the necessity of testing in my previous post. I’ll talk about how we can implement TDD in our project in this post. When we talk about testing, there are a lot of tests that we can perform. … Continue reading
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