Lessons Learned in Unit Testing Session – DDD8
31Jan10
DDD8 was a lot of fun!
I really didn’t know what to expect and it turned out great, and got to a few talks ( not as many as I wanted tho) and met personally a lot of really interesting people.
Moving on swiftly to the meaty bit of the post:
I’ve uploaded the code and slides to github, I m hoping I can improve this samples with time, if there is anything wrong apologies in advance, first time using git as a committing to a project so I m bound to get it wrong. Looking forward to James Gregory E-Van on git so I can learn more on the topic 
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.I’m sure I ll look at the code sometime later and think OMG! how did I dare to present this in public, but I guess is the nature of the beast .
.If you saw the talk please let me know what you think, as I would appreciate any feedback, particularly the parts that I can make better. So far I the feedback I have is:
- I do speak too quick,
- I should talk about legacy code and how to deal with that
I posted the code in the same way I presented it, this means there is a OrderService_version1, 2 and 3, hopefully you can follow the code pretty much as we did it in the talk.
There was some questions, and I said I ll post some links here:
Books:
- The Art of Unit Testing (Roy Osherove), the talk is heavily inspired by this book
- xUnit Test Patterns, Refactoring Test Code ( Meszaros), Great book if you are looking for more detail. Perfect as a reference book
- TDD by Example by Kent Beck, a very hands on approach highly recomended.
- Working Effectively with Legacy Code, Michael Feathers – A must read if you are interested in testing (whether you are working with legacy code or not).
Tools:
During the talk I was using
Unit testing frameworks:
Mocking Frameworks:
-moq
Other tools mentioned:
-Rhino Mocks: Possibly the most used Mocking Framework
-NCommon: General purpose library, definitely worth a check
-Ninject: IoC container ( there is also .. Ninject.MVC that helps you wire up the dependencies of your controllers on they fly, very useful )
-Windsor: IoC container
If there are any questions or comments, please do let me know
Thanks to the organizers and everyone there, it was a wonderful experience that I m hoping to repeat.
Cheers
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Hi Andrea,
Thanks for the excellent talk – a good structure, using the OrderService example as a focus for the principles you wanted to get across.
Can I ask what test runner you were using during your demos?
Hi Craig:
You are too kind, and thanks for your blog post too, but I m glad you found it helpful.
I was using the resharper test runner with xUnit contrib
Cheers
Andrea Magnorsky? Tanto tiempo.. Como te trata la vida en Irlanda?
De casualidad llegué a éste blog, y me imagino que sos vos la que lo escribe.
No se si te acordarás de mí, pero fuimos compañeros en la UTN. Igual te dejo saludos.
Mateo.
Mateo, tanto tiempo, donde andas vos?