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KickStart Your .NET Mocking
Getting started with mocking can be hard. In this article, I describe the path that I took on my way to becoming a frequent mocker. -
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QuickTip - Marking and Selecting Traffic in Fiddler
Fiddler offers numerous ways to tag Web Sessions so you can easily identify them later. For instance, you can use the Comment button on the toolbar (or hit the M key) after selecting items in Web Sessions list to add notes about the traffic... -
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Using Data Driving Wisely
[Update: Added links for Hexawise and Allpairs, which I’d meant to do earlier.] Data driving, also often called parameterization, is a wonderful way to increase your test coverage though parts of your system; however, it’s also a seductive, alluring tool that can needlessly explode your tests’ complexity and execution cost. Let’s tackle the cons of data driving first, then walk through how it can, when mindfully used, lend some great value to your automation suites. Problems with Data Driving Automated test scripts need to be treated like production code—because they are production code! With that in mind, as test ...May 27, 2021 5 min read -
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Data Driven Testing: What’s a Good Dataset Size?
I thought I’d follow up that last post on Using Data Driven Testing Wisely with something specific around the size of the dataset for a data driven test (DDT). What’s a good size for a DDT? As with everything in software engineering/testing, the answer is “42.” That, or “It depends.” In all seriousness, the right size of a dataset for a carefully thought out scenario does indeed depend. My payroll algorithm in the last post was a simple test set. You may be working something much more complex relating to finance, rocket science, or environmental controls. Every situation’s different, but ...May 27, 2021 2 min read -
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Top 5 TDD Mistakes
Our guest blogger, the Contented Coder, Bradley Braithwaite shares the 5 most common TDD mistakes that he has encountered over the years.May 27, 2021 11 min read
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