The code in the last two articles in the "Practical Testing" series have contained a considerable amount of duplication. This came about for a couple of reasons. Firstly part 17 was a bit rushed and secondly it was useful to...

Back in 2004, I wrote a series of articles called "Practical Testing" where I took a piece of complicated multi-threaded code and wrote tests for it. I then rebuild the code from scratch in a test driven development style to...

It has been a busy couple of weeks for me. I've been working on an ISO 8583 based transaction server for a client and I set myself some fairly tight deadlines. I actually developed the first version of the server...

Last week I mentioned that some of my tests for my Win32 Debug API class had suddenly started failing. It seems that I was right and the changes are due to some .Net fixes that have been rolled out recently....

Back in October 2007 I sumarised my findings from getting my Win32 DebugAPI based debug engine working on x64. One of the strange things that I found at the time was this: When running a CLR app under the Win32...

There's an entry over on the Dr. Dobbs blog about testing and how you make sure that your tests are testing the right thing; effectively, who tests the test. There's a question at the end "What do you do?" and...

The comments to my last practical testing entry got me thinking. The commenter who had located the bug in part 15, which was fixed in part 16, suggested a new approach to the problem and I've been investigating it. The...

Back in 2004, I wrote a series of articles called "Practical Testing" where I took a piece of complicated multi-threaded code and wrote tests for it. I then rebuild the code from scratch in a test driven development style to...