How Do I Refactor my Code in Visual Studio?
These two videos show how to use the refactoring tools in Visual Studio. Video Part 1 Video Part 2
Tag: .net
Agile software development with .NET
10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing
In this episode of 10-4 we look at a new type of test coming in Visual Studio Team System 2010 known as the coded UI test. Coded UI tests can be created to automatically navigate through your application’s UI, which in turn can be used to verify that the paths …
Interaction Based Testing with Rhino Mocks
Beyond the simplest scenarios, all objects had collaborators that they work with. This flies in the face of testing objects in isolation. This is the problem that mock objects were created to solve. In this talk you will learn what mock objects are, how to utilize them and best practices …
The Synergy of Code Contracts and Pex
Manuel Fähndrich and Peli de Halleux sit down for a quick coding session that shows how to use Code Contracts and Pex together. Code Contracts can be used to specify what your code should do, they get turned into runtime checks which Pex can analyze and try to find counter-examples …
Getting started with Pex in Visual Studio 2008
Nikolai Tillmann and Peli de Halleux give a short tutorial on Pex, an automated white box testing tool for .Net. The tutorial is a pair-programming session where they show us how to get started with Pex in Visual Studio, starting from an (untested) piece of C# code: * how to …
Eliminating Static Dependencies
Nature abhors a vacuum. It turns out she also abhors static dependencies (I have my sources). Static dependencies are the modern-day globals, often exposed through classes named “Helper”. I’ve certainly been guilty of overusing static dependencies in the past, with classes like “LoggingHelper”, “SessionHelper”, “DBHelper” and so on. The problem …