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NUnitASP Architecture walkthrough video from Jim Shore

Sun, 21 Aug 2005 04:31:48 -0500

Jim Shore, one of the Agile folks out there, has created a nice animated video using Camtasia that talks about how the NUnitASP Architecture works. It's not really for those without any NUnitASP experience but it's definitely interesting and I hope there will be more of this to come. Here's the full excerpt from his email to the Test-First user interfaces mailing list at Yahoo: At the Agile 2005 conference, Joshua Kerievsky talked about using alternatives to hands-on coaching to "commoditize" training in XP. I found it to be a thought-provoking talk. Well, tI've tried out one of Joshua's ideas and I'm very pleased with the result. NUnitAsp is a tool for test-driven development of ASP.NET. I've produced a video that talks about NUnitAsp's architecture, the challenges that you face in NUnitAsp, and ways to overcome them. It's a neat presentation, very compact at eight minutes, and well illustrated with animation and figures, if I do say so myself. Although it's intended for advanced users, I think anybody interested in NUnitAsp or TDD in general will learn something from watching it. I'm very happy with the way this turned out and I hope you'll take a look. Please let me know what you think. You can find the video on the NUnitAsp web site: http://nunitasp.sf.net/AdvancedNUnitAsp.html This is the first time I've produced a video like this and I've blogged about the experience here: http://www.jamesshore.com/Blog/Advanced-NUnitAsp-Video.html Enjoy!

Test Framework Comparison

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:24:41 -0500

Read almost any software developer journal or website and we're told that responsible developers write test cases. If those developers are Java developers then, most likely, they use JUnit for those test cases. JUnit is probably the oldest and certainly the most popular Java-based testing framework around. Created by Erich Gamma and Kent Beck, JUnit has become the de facto standard for unit testing. In the interim, however, other frameworks have been built to address various faults and deficiencies with JUnit.

Technique for Manipulating the HttpContext within NUnitAsp tests

Mon, 04 Jul 2005 00:58:55 -0500

I created a Setup.aspx file that would allow me to make requests to it and pass in a static method that I wanted to call, and as a result, any code that ran inside of it would run inside the webs application domain and have access to the Session and HttpContext. Author: Robin Curry Published: June 27, 2005

Thycotic Software TddStarterKit

Thu, 19 May 2005 00:35:27 -0500

Thycotic.TddStarterKit is a collection of useful tools and extensions for NUnit and NUnitAsp that solve some of the problems commonly encountered on TDD projects.

JTR: Java Test Runner

Thu, 19 May 2005 00:36:22 -0500

A Java framework that helps developers in building test suites. JTR is based on concepts such as Inversion of Control, and is ready for EJB and JMS testing.

AnyUnit: test code generator for MSVS

Tue, 26 Apr 2005 01:12:15 -0500

AnyUnit is an add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio. Its purpose is to create and execute test code for Visual C/C++ and C# projects. AnyUnit speeds up creation and deployment of unit tests by creating test code stubs for every class and function defined in the original project and providing a one-button test executioner.Commercial tool.

CFNUnitBridge: Test Driven Development for the .NET compact framework(almost there)

Mon, 11 Apr 2005 00:20:40 -0500

Just found this via this post over at CodeBetter.com. CFNUnitBridge

The goal of the CFNUnitBridge is to bring unit testing and test-driven development to the .Net Compact Framework. Currently it specifically targets NUnit, but in the future it will work with multiple unit testing frameworks.

Parasoft Jtest: automated Java unit testing and coding standard analysis tool

Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:59:22 -0600

Parasoft Jtest is an automated Java unit testing and coding standard analysis product that improves Java code reliability, functionality, security, performance, and maintainability. To expose reliability, security, and functionality problems within each unit, Jtest examines each class, then generates and executes JUnit test cases designed to achieve high coverage, expose uncaught runti

Engineering Flex Applications & Cairngorm [Slides]

Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:28:25 -0600

In this presentation, Steven Webster discusses a number of concepts in detail, most notably the pragmatic and agile development of Enterprise RIA, unit-testing, test-driven development, using FlexUnit and refactoring Flex applications. He also talks about strategies for testing and debugging, especially when using the Cairngorm framework. Author: Steven WebsterPresent

PyMantra: Python unit-testing framework

Tue, 11 Jan 2005 00:25:41 -0600

Unit-testing framework for Python, following the TDD mantra: red, green, refactor.

Frictionless Testing with TestDriven.NET

Thu, 06 Jan 2005 00:46:51 -0600

Much has been written in the last several years about the benefits of unit testing and test-driven development. The basic idea is that you should write a test for every bit of functionality in your application, and exercise these tests as you go along to make sure that you didn't break anything. Proper use of these techniques can lead to increased confidence and fewer errors in your code. A number of tools, such as NUnit, MbUnit, and even (for those of you brave enough to run the Visual Studio 2005 beta) Microsoft Team System now support unit testing for .NET development. But a new entrant to the .NET ecosphere, TestDriven.NET, makes the process easier than ever. In this article, I'll show you how.

SimpleCTest: C/C++ unit testing framework

Wed, 22 Dec 2004 02:33:15 -0600

A very simple but effective testing framework for C and C++ projects.

IeUnit: test logical behavior of web sites

Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:39:08 -0600

IeUnit is a simple framework to test logical behaviors of web pages. It helps users to create, organize and execute functional unit tests. IeUnit is implemented in JavaScript for the Windows XP platform with Internet Explorer.

Unit Testing with wxPython and PyUnit: using NDtestmaker

Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:43:30 -0600

NDtestmaker creates a 'shadow' copy of the module(s) under test, and replaces the display of dialogs with code to simulate dialog activity. Modeless widgets are not displayed during the tests. This page explains the use of NDtestmaker to test components of a wxPython application with PyUnit (unit test module).

TestGen: generate and run unit/integration tests

Tue, 14 Dec 2004 01:00:45 -0600

Python based framework for generating and running unit and integration tests. The framework supports unit testing of C, C++, and Python and integration testing of Python.(Beta stage)