Sometimes I wonder the reason of some strange error in really big application. Facebook is surely one of the biggest application on the planet, it manages millions of user, but it has strange bug. I use facebook rarely, but in the last few days I was not able to look at my profile, whenever I [...]
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TypeMock Isolator is a good library to inject mock objects without the need of interfaces, but what happens when you try to run test that uses typemock isolator inside a tfs 2010 build? Clearly the tests will not succeed
If you look at test result you can check why the tests are failing
Ok, the [...]
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I’m creating some web tests with Visual Studio to test an application in an end-to-end fashion. This is absolutely not a unit test, but I want to be able to launch a series of automatic tests against a web server to verify if the whole site satisfy an initial set of core requirements.
One of this [...]
If you have an MSBuild custom task that you want to reuse in a TFS 2010 build workflow, you have two solution. The first is using the MsBuild activity as I described in this post, but this approach has a lot of limitations.
First of all it is clumsy, because you have to pass custom task [...]
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Some time ago I blogged about logging in custom action for TFS build 2010, I left out some details. Suppose you want to create a warning or an error and not a simple message, you need to create a specialized version of the LogWarning that logs a real warning.
You can do the same with [...]
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