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TDD, Mocks, Stubs, IoC, DI, getting it straight.   Message List  
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Re: TDD, Mocks, Stubs, IoC, DI, getting it straight.

Definitely agree, great analogy.

--- In glasgow_altdotnet_usersgroup@yahoogroups.com, Paul Cowan
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> Amen to that.The analogy of the stunt double is one of the things
that finally enabled me to write better tests.I always write my own
test doubles. Is it possible to create through a mocking
framework?Everyone has there own aha moment.The moment it clicked that
I should absolutely start by writing a test that fails and then make
it pass was when I was sold on the whole thing.
> I try and start every bug with the input that caused the bug and
every new functionality with a good assertion that it should
pass.dagda1@...
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> To: glasgow_altdotnet_usersgroup@...: colin.jack@...: Wed, 22 Oct
2008 07:52:50 +0000Subject: [glasgow_altdotnet_usersgroup] Re: TDD,
Mocks, Stubs, IoC, DI, getting it straight.
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> >> Thank you Colin for the book recommendation, it has been sitting
in my > amazon basket for a while now. Got a few others to read
first.> I know that feeling! :) When you do buy it its the section on
TestDoubles that you'll want to look at.
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Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:39 am

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Hi folks, May I ask, have I got this right.... TDD is based on writing tests before you write your code. The test initially fails and then the code is written...
dsmyth2001
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Oct 20, 2008
7:41 pm

I only really have experience of Rhino.Mocks. One of the problems of mocking is we have so many names for similar things.Since the advent of Rhino.Mocks 3.5...
Paul Cowan
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Oct 20, 2008
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I don't use any mocks anymore, instead I use stubs. In the tests that are concerned with the interaction between the dependency and method/system under test I...
Chris Canal
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Oct 20, 2008
7:59 pm

OK so yous didn't mock me (pun intended) for posting that so I must have understood what I have been reading. Stubs did seem easier to apply but an...
dsmyth2001
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Oct 21, 2008
8:30 pm

I gave Pex a shot a while back and it did some v. odd things, seemed inclined to change the SUT with Pex specific magic when I told it to resolve errors....
Colin Jack
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Oct 22, 2008
7:51 am

... I'd recommend XUnit Test Patterns and Jimmy Bogard also has some blog entries on it. If you want to hear the pro-mocking view I'd see mockobjects.com or ...
Colin Jack
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Oct 21, 2008
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Thank you Colin for the book recommendation, it has been sitting in my amazon basket for a while now. Got a few others to read first. ... to ... and...
dsmyth2001
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Oct 21, 2008
8:55 pm

... I know that feeling! :) When you do buy it its the section on Test Doubles that you'll want to look at....
Colin Jack
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Oct 22, 2008
7:52 am

... Amen to that.The analogy of the stunt double is one of the things that finally enabled me to write better tests.I always write my own test doubles. Is it...
Paul Cowan
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Oct 22, 2008
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Definitely agree, great analogy. ... that finally enabled me to write better tests.I always write my own test doubles. Is it possible to create through a...
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