Previous posts: Part 0 of 4: Introduction Part 1 of 4: Testing the Service Testing the Client So far, I outlined how to test your WCF service. I simply took advantage or the WCF architecture and tested the service directly outside of the actual service harness. Now I need to set my sights on the client Read More...
Previous posts: Part 0 of 4: Introduction Testing the Service Of the four posts, testing the service is by far the easiest. One of the most beautiful things about the WCF framework is the way it was designed to be more testable than ASPX services. When you design your WCF interface, you are mostly just designing an interface with the WCF ServiceContract attributes Read More...
When you are writing automated tests for your application, it is important that the tests do not rely on the file system or external services. The only problem is that when you write applications using WCF, you are writing code that relies on external services. It is very tempting to create service references in your test DLL and test against them, but please refrain Read More...
It is official. I have registered for CodeMash '09. I have been told that this is the single-most important conference to go to. Many people have told me this. I have also been told that all the cool kids will be there. In fact, almost everyone I know in the community is planning to go Read More...
Back in July, I posted an article on how to mock out the database in ActiveRecord. The approach is simple, but is not mocking in the strict sense. I use SQLite in "memory" mode, creating a temporal database for testing. My colleague, Jay Harris, has updated my code to allow for configuration in two ways Read More...
Although Microsoft will claim that it is "not possible to have a memory leak in managed code", most seasoned .NET developers will laugh at that statement. It turns out that it is very easy to leak memory -- just keep a referencing object around longer than the referenced object, and you can leak Read More...
I will be speaking at GLUG.NET Lansing on November 20th, 2008. My topic will be a talk I have given once before -- Castle Active Record (Don't Get Good at a CRUDy Job). Thanks to Jeff McWherter for signing me up for this gig. I look forward to meeting those in the Lansing area.
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