Today, I’m going to post an excerpt of a tutorial I created for the use of Moq on an internal company wiki for training purposes. I presented today on mocking for unit tests and was revisiting some of my old documentation, which included an introductory, unofficial explanation of lambda expressions that doesn’t involve any kind…
Quick Information/Overview Pattern Type Structural Applicable Language/Framework Agnostic OOP Pattern Source Gang of Four Difficulty Easy Up Front Definitions Component: This is the abstract object that represents any and all members of the pattern Composite: Derives from component and provides the definition for the class that contains other components Leaf: A concrete node that encapsulates…
Finding Seams in Code The other day, someone asked me about how to “get at” certain things that he wanted to unit test in a class that he was writing. That is, he had some code that he wanted to extract from a public method and test, but his only solution was to expose the…
Quick Information/Overview Pattern Type Behavioral Applicable Language/Framework Agnostic OOP Pattern Source Gang of Four Difficulty Easy – Moderate Up Front Definitions Invoker: This object services clients by exposing a method that takes a command as a parameter and invoking the command’s execute Receiver: This is the object upon which commands are performed – its state…
So, the other day I mentioned to a coworker that I was working on a tool that would wrap moq and provide expressive test double names. I then mentioned the tool AutoMoq, and he showed me something that he was doing. It’s very simple: [TestClass] public class FeatureResetServiceTest { #region Builders private static FeatureResetService BuildTarget(IFeatureLocator…
