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Roy Osherove

Roy Osherove's blog provides a variety of development topics with a focus on Agile development, unit testing, hardcore .NET topics (Winforms, threading, reflection, regular expressions) and more. The blog has been online for over 5 years and gets an average 47,000 unique views per month.
Roy's also shares insights from his book on unit testing: "The Art Of Unit Testing". More info at : http://the.artofunittesting.com/


ISerializable | 14 Aug 2010 11:41

Two different ways to create bad logic in unit testsSubscribe to this feed

Roy Osherove writes "....we’re adding more rules to Test Lint, these days, and one of them is called “Production Logic in Test”. It is quite different, and I think even more dangerous than the existing rule “Logic in Test” – because it talks about reproducing logic from..."
Read more »  Two different ways to create bad logic in unit tests


ISerializable | 02 Aug 2010 22:02

Case Study: SmartInspect in the real worldSubscribe to this feed

Roy Osherove writes "....as part of the last case study, I’ve also implemented another tool in our real world project – SmartInspect: a tracing tool. The developer had also given us this tool free of charge to do a case study with, which I had promised to publish on my blog..."
Read more »  Case Study: SmartInspect in the real world


ISerializable | 02 Aug 2010 21:45

Case Study: CryptoLicensing + CryptoObfuscator in the real worldSubscribe to this feed

Roy Osherove writes "....I’ve reviewed CryptoLicensing last year, and in the past few months, I’ve had the chance of implementing both CryptoLicensing and CryptoObfuscator for .NET in a real commercial project. the developer had given us free licenses to do a case study..."
Read more »  Case Study: CryptoLicensing + CryptoObfuscator in the real world


ISerializable | 24 Jul 2010 04:39

Notes from a TDD masterclassSubscribe to this feed

Roy Osherove writes "....another TDD masterclass is done, and this time it was Munich! Lovely people, and smart programmers :) made a few changes this time – had an excersice about doing automated builds and CI, removed rhino mocks and added a bunch of other frameworks..."
Read more »  Notes from a TDD masterclass


ISerializable | 04 Jul 2010 14:30

new Test Lint Beta – with command line runnerSubscribe to this feed

Roy Osherove writes "....There is a new version of Test Lint – a test review tool for visual studio. It will check your unit tests for common problems and teach you on making your tests more readable, maintainable and trustworthy. The addin is still free and has a new rule..."
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ISerializable | 05 Jun 2010 12:49

This Week In Test - Episode 1 – Rietveld!Subscribe to this feed

Roy Osherove writes "....We’re happy to bring you the first episode of the new and revamped “This week in testing” with Roy osherove and Ariel Raunstien. The episode is 32 minutes long. You can watch it in full at our new site...."
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ISerializable | 02 Jun 2010 13:26

Converting MOD files to quicktime or mpeg for adobe premiere proSubscribe to this feed

Roy Osherove writes "....I’ve been Editing lots of videos lately. My company got a video camera: Canon Legria FS200. It saves the movies in a digital format – as MOD files. Unfortunately, Adobe Premiere doesn’t work with these files. I needed software to convert MOD files..."
Read more »  Converting MOD files to quicktime or mpeg for adobe premiere pro


ISerializable | 01 Jun 2010 08:59

Video: Hardcore production debugging in .NET – Ingo RammerSubscribe to this feed

Roy Osherove writes "....I got Ingo Rammer’s permission to post this video of one of his Teched EMEA 2008 talks – it’s about hardcore production debugging, and it’s a wonderful talk. I highly recommend you watch it. Also you should consider getting the book Advanced .NET..."
Read more »  Video: Hardcore production debugging in .NET – Ingo Rammer


ISerializable | 01 Jun 2010 08:55

Want to work at Typemock? We’re HiringSubscribe to this feed

Roy Osherove writes "....We are looking for a .NET\C++ developer to join the growing Typemock ranks. You need to: Live in Israel know .NET very well (at least 3 years .NET experience – VB.NET or C#, and willing to learn the other one) Have some C++ experience..."
Read more »  Want to work at Typemock? We’re Hiring


ISerializable | 01 Jun 2010 07:38

Video: Continuous Integration with and without team system (Teched 2008)Subscribe to this feed

Roy Osherove writes "....this one was a loong time ago – but still has value. it’s about continous Integration, with and without team system. BTW – you can find all of my videos over here...."
Read more »  Video: Continuous Integration with and without team system (Teched 2008)


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Roy Osherove

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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) @jbrains how do you like ticketleap vs. eventbrite ? about 10 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) @jbrains how do you like ticketleap vs. eventbrite? about 10 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) @irobinson I'd love to take a look at your slides for testing DNN. about 10 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) RT @1kevgriff: Need some good Hurricane Earl reading material. I think "The Art of Unit Testing" might work. about 10 hours ago from TweetDeck


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) "bomb objects" == "bombjects" 1 day ago from TweetDeck


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) RT @dvroegop: MEF + MVVM + TypeMock = Way to much fun to call it work :-) 1 day ago from TweetDeck


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) @chadmyers amazon cloudfront does the trick for us 2 days ago from TweetDeck


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) @martinfowler am I right to assume only open source related tools appear on the radar? 2 days ago from TweetDeck


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) @martinfowler what kind of tools does "next gen test tools" refer to in the tech radar? I didn't find those. 2 days ago from TweetDeck


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) How to Fake SPFarm.Local & SPFarm.Properties with Typemock http://bit.ly/9JybF6 2 days ago from TweetDeck


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) RT @ijrussell: #goos is ebook of the day on InformIT http://bit.ly/aFwHpg $9.99 Written in java but still an interesting read for .net devs. 3 days ago from TweetDeck


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) GetClicky is still my favorite tracker http://bit.ly/9JsNsv 4 days ago from TweetDeck


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) RT @wendyscharfman: "Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken." - Oscar Wilde 4 days ago from TweetDeck


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) RT @OlavMaassen: How many books from the top 100 agile books do you have? http://bit.ly/953yOQ (via @jurgenappelo) 4 days ago from TweetDeck


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) back from 8 days in rhodes with two kids. what I call "intense" vacation. 4 days ago from TweetDeck


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Roy Osherove (RoyOsherove) VIDEO: by @richardfennel -- Using Typemock Isolator and Ivonna for unit testing the web UI http://youtu.be/fwcNtXCtJ_w?a 4 days ago from TweetDeck