mocking

Evaluation of dot Net Mocking libraries

Redirects to legacy blog post. I’ve recently undertaken another round of evaluating .NET mocking (fake/substitute/dummy/stub/ or what ever you want to call them now) libraries. Interestingly the landscape has changed quite a bit since last time I went through this exercise, which was about two years ago. The outcome of the previous investigation is at the bottom of this post.

Talk - Moving to test and behaviour-driven development

At Canterbury Software Cluster: In this session Kim went over the benefits of introducing TDD and BDD: How to introduce them, their differences, how to deal with push back from team members and upper management.

Moving to TDD

Redirects to legacy blog post. The first thing to clear up is that TDD is not primarily about testing, but rather it forces the developer to write code that is testable (the fact the code has tests written for it and running regularly is a side effect, albeit a very positive one).