While I’ve been switching a lot of my new projects over to using JustMock, as explained here, I still have plenty of existing projects with Moq, and I still like Moq as a tool. One of the things that I have struggled with in Moq that JustMock provides a nice solution to is the cognitive…
A New Mocking Tool In life, I feel that it’s easiest to understand something if you know multiple ways of accomplishing/using/doing/etc it. Today I decided to apply that reasoning to automatic mocking tools for .NET. I’m already quite familiar with Moq and have posted about it a number of times in the past. When I…
Today, I’d like to highlight a couple of features of Moq that I didn’t know about until relatively recently (thanks to a recent google+ hangout with Moq author, Daniel Cazzulino). Since learning about these features, I’ve been getting a lot of mileage out of them. But, in order to explain these two features and the…
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…
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…
