Testing in Python – My first steps with pytest
Recently I started developing in python (v3.8) as one of our customers asked me to implement some functionality based on a code base which is written in python. First of […]
ISTQB Foundation Level 2018 Certification
Recently I decided to do another certification. Since I was able to gain some experience in the context of testing in the last years and because testing is an interesting and important topic, I decided to go for a foundation level certification in testing. ISTQB (International Software Testing Qualifications Board) is a global provider of such certifications. The Foundation Level […]
[NoBrainer] Simplifying and Speeding Up Testing in Sparx Enterprise Architect
Today’s post will be rather quick. I will show you how a unit/integration test class that can interact with real model data in Sparx Enterprise Architect. Beyond the well known Interop.EA assembly there is another assembly called SparxSystems.Repository that provides the intersting feature to connect to a running EA instance: Services.GetRepository(). We can use this to write unit/integration tests that […]
Unit Testing C# binary PowerShell Modules
For years all our PowerShell modules we released were script modules (i.e. they were written in PowerShell). However, it is certainly possible to write PowerShell modules in C# as binary modules. Of course there are already plenty discussions whether one or the other approach is better. It really depends on the exact requirements. For us the limitations of Pester (especially […]
[NoBrainer] Invoke-Pester from your Visual Studio IDE as an External Tool
You might have heard of the recently added support for PowerShell development inside Visual Studio. This extension provides several features, with support for the Pester testing framework being one of them. However, it seems that sometimes the Visual Studio 2013 just does not recognise your test scripts (even when they are named like SomeScript.Tests.ps1). As a quick workaround you can […]
Telerik JustMock in Action
While searching for a mocking framework for C# .NET we of d-fens stumbled over JustMock. JustMock is a mocking framework for unit testing developed and maintained by Telerik. Besides JustMock Telerik provides a huge palette of development tools. The probably most popular tool developed by them is Fiddler. Now let’s go back to JustMock. There are two versions of JustMock […]
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