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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 | 16 May 2012 12:29

File System Wrappers for Unit Testing in C#

Roy Osherove writes "....I’ve asked this on twitter, and here’s what I got: System.IO.Abstractions (looks pretty deep) SystemWrapper (I’m not crazy about the file system being used as a mock API) Something older I’d take a look at the..."
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ISerializable | 16 May 2012 09:24

Test Driven Validation Logic with Extract & Override

Roy Osherove writes "....In the NerdDinner project, there’s this amazing test (see the bottom, second one). There are so many things wrong here: What is exactly correct about these properties? Many magic values Multiple tests in a single test if it fails,..."
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ISerializable | 15 May 2012 21:14

Zen of python revisited with code samples

Roy Osherove writes "....I really like reading this code. I will look deeper into it this week. Many of the “zen” ideas here speak to me on the unit test level. ..."
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ISerializable | 15 May 2012 16:15

Test Naming Conventions With Unit of Work

Roy Osherove writes "....When I name my tests I use the name of the “unit of work” as the first part. If the unit of work is bigger than a method, I usually name the test with the name of the initial public method that starts the unit of..."
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ISerializable | 15 May 2012 16:02

What does the 'unit' in 'unit test' mean?

Roy Osherove writes "....I used to think it was a method. Then I thought it coule be several methods. then I thought it might be several classes. then I realized it changes all the time. It means “unit of work”. A unit of work is a use case in the system, that..."
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ISerializable | 09 May 2012 13:07

[Video] Vimming - Natural Selection in Visual Mode

Roy Osherove writes "....My third vimdeo..."
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ISerializable | 08 May 2012 14:32

[Video] Vimming - All about change

Roy Osherove writes "....here’s my second attempt..."
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ISerializable | 07 May 2012 19:15

[Video] Vimming - Hello World with vim

Roy Osherove writes "....My first foray into trying to teach vim related stuff. hope you like it...."
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ISerializable | 04 May 2012 09:44

Annual Poll: Which Isolation framework do you use if any?

Roy Osherove writes "....Please answer the following: Which Isolation frameworks have you used in the past 3 months?..."
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ISerializable | 03 May 2012 11:22

Hire me for a day or two in Oslo, in June

Roy Osherove writes "....During the week of NDC, I will be spending some of my time doing absolutely nothing but look at apartments (we’re planning to move to Norway in august, given all works out and I find a good place to work). If anyone would like me to come over..."
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