Actually SharpTestEx is my favorite way to make assertions in Unit testing. It has a lot of advantages, first of all it permits to write really clear assertions, then it works on the main Unit testing framework, so I can use the same assertion syntax for nunit and for MStest or MbUnit etc etc. Another [...]

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Test helper for a single method
on December 29th, 2010
On category: Testing

I’ve build during years a test helper infrastructure that permits me to decorate a test fixture with some custom attributes that are capable to execute code before and after fixture setup/teardown or test setup/teardown. Now my dear friend Ugo needs for Dexter a modified version of this framework to be able to apply attributes directly [...]

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In a previous post I showed how to create a custom loop that permits you to create a loop in a web performance test to iterate from the char ‘a’ to char ‘z’, now I want to be able to create an inner loop that for each loop extract all the names of the customers [...]

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Visual Studio has an integrated Web Test tool capable to record navigation in IE to create web tests that can be used even for Load Testing. One of the most interesting capabilities of this tool, is that it is pluggable. Suppose you have recorded a simple test that verifies the registration procedure for a web [...]

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Testing capabilities in TFS 2010
on October 26th, 2010
On category: Testing

In TFS 2010 testing capabilities are really exceptional, and I’m not referring to testing tools that actually permits to record and replay web pages, CUIT etc, but I’m referring to the possibility to do a serious management of test plans for your projects. I’ve seen in the past team doing test plan management with Excel, [...]

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