Rickard Nilsson on crafting software

How to unit test your database code when using ServiceStack OrmLite

19. januari 2013 Rickard Open source, Software development, Unit testing (1)

I’ve been working extensively with ServiceStack lately and I really like what they’ve done. As it co I’ve been working extensively with ServiceStack lately and I really like what they’ve done. As it contains the full stack for building HTTP based services from text serializers to development tools t... [More]

Unit testing continuously

20. augusti 2012 Rickard Software development, Unit testing (0)

The foundation for all solid professional software development in my opinion is good craftsmanship practices and the most important of them is unit testing. Unit testing continuously is a practice and tool support for running unit tests in the background as you code. The foundation for all solid pro... [More]

How we practice Continuous Integration at Ninetech with TFS TV

15. juli 2012 Rickard Continuous Integration, Software development, Unit testing (1)

At Ninetech we've developed an app which runs on a plasma in our dev room, showing everyone the current status of our projects including build success/failure, unit tests, and code coverage. I’ve previously blogged about how we practice Continuous Integration with TeamCity at Ninetech but some time ... [More]

TDD Kata 2 - Interaction based testing

19. juli 2011 Rickard Agile, Kata, Unit testing (4)

TDD Katas has become very popular in a small segment of the development community and we call our se TDD Katas has become very popular in a small segment of the development community and we call our selves software craftsmen. We are passionate about software development as a craft and engage in diff... [More]

How we practice Continuous Integration with Team City and ASP.NET 4

12. september 2010 Rickard ASP.NET 4, Continuous Integration, Unit testing (1)

In my current project we have adopted the Continuous Integration process and its key practices.We have multiple sites that all need to get deployed at once so we’ve set up a build configuration in Team City where anyone on the project at any time can at the click of a button deploy to all servers at once. [More]

Slides from my talk on Continuous Integration

11. september 2010 Rickard Continuous Integration, Unit testing (0)

Slides (in Swedish) from my talk on Continuous Integration held internally at Ninetech 9th September Slides (in Swedish) from my talk on Continuous Integration held internally at Ninetech September 9th. Continuous integration View more presentations from rickardnil. Disclaimer: The slides ha... [More]

Prime Factors Kata in C#

21. juli 2010 Rickard Agile, Kata, Unit testing (5)

The Prime Factors Kata, initially sparked by the infamous Uncle Bob Martin, is about finding an arbitrary number’s prime factors. This is my attempt to show what you can do with the C# language in terms of dynamism and when you know the frameworks really well. Are you new to the concept of code kata... [More]

Isolate your code from ASP.NET with Moles Isolation Framework

19. april 2010 Rickard .NET, Moles, Unit testing, User tip (6)

I will show how easy it is to isolate your client code from ASP.NET code, using the Moles Isolation Framework, in order to test that your code performs as intended. In the following example I will show how easy it is to isolate your client code from ASP.NET code, using the Moles Isolation Framework,... [More]

Moles Isolation Framework from Microsoft to be compared with TypeMock Isolator

13. april 2010 Rickard Unit testing (0)

Moles is a new framework from Microsoft Research for isolating objects in unit tests Moles is a new framework from Microsoft Research for isolating objects in unit tests. With the framework you create test stubs by using delegates and you can route any .NET method you want, including non-virtual and... [More]

Dependency injection in ASP.NET MVC with Unity IoC Container

25. december 2009 Rickard ASP.NET MVC, Unit testing (3)

Enabling truly easy testability with ASP.NET MVC Controllers requires a Dependency Injection container. This post is about showing a more real life example of combining Unity with ASP.NET MVC Controllers than the standard demo. Update! Download sample project MvcWithUnity.VS2010.zip (727,5KB) Downlo... [More]

ReSharper templates from the Code Kata Cast

17. november 2009 Rickard Agile, C# 3.0, Unit testing (0)

After I posted my Code Kata Cast I received some feedback regarding the ReSharper templates I use to speed up my coding. I decided to share them with the public. After I posted my Code Kata Cast I received some feedback regarding the ReSharper templates I use to speed up my coding. I decided to shar... [More]

How to unit test code which depends on HttpContext.Current.Server

11. november 2009 Rickard Agile, ASP.NET 3.5, Unit testing (3)

Much of the legacy ASP.NET code I’ve seen is littered with calls to methods on the HttpServerUtility class, Server.MapPath(…) is one such method. This makes it really hard to test. Much of the legacy ASP.NET code I’ve seen is littered with calls to methods on the HttpServerUtility class, [code... [More]

Code Kata Cast

27. oktober 2009 Rickard C# 3.0, Kata, Unit testing, User tip (15)

You learn how to implement a solution to a specific problem and you practice over and over again to better yourself as a programmer. Have you ever come across the concept of a Code Kata? For me it really took off after reading blog posts (1, 2, 3) by Unce Bob Martin and Pragmatic Programmer Dave Tho... [More]

The Humble dialog v.2

15. juli 2008 Rickard C# 3.0, Design Patterns, Unit testing (2)

Download source: TheHumbleDialog2.zip (30KB) I've been working to get my head around the Model-View- Download source: TheHumbleDialog2.zip (30KB) I've been working to get my head around the Model-View-Presenter pattern and I've focused primarily on a Winforms scenario. As it turns out there are nume... [More]

Driving out a correct implementation of ISO week numbers using TDD #4

18. mars 2008 Rickard .NET, C# 2.0, Unit testing (0)

Abstract Refactoring Test coverage Proceeding with a solution there is no way of chang Abstract Refactoring Test coverage Proceeding with a solution there is no way of changing the implementation of the GregorianCalendar class to get the correct behavior so we have to go ... [More]

Driving out a correct implementation of ISO week numbers using TDD #3

17. mars 2008 Rickard .NET, C# 2.0, Unit testing (0)

Abstract Refactoring Our task at hand is to get as much coverage as possible when it comes to error Abstract Refactoring Our task at hand is to get as much coverage as possible when it comes to errors in the implementation. The ideal coverage is one where all dates are tested. The problem is that ... [More]

Driving out a correct implementation of ISO week numbers using TDD: Refactor

12. mars 2008 Rickard .NET, C# 2.0, Unit testing (0)

AbstractSo, now we make up another test. Looking at the calendar we see that new years eave 2001 sho AbstractSo, now we make up another test. Looking at the calendar we see that new years eave 2001 should also belong to the first week of 2002 according to ISO 8601. We write the test much like the pr... [More]

Abstract: Driving out a correct implementation of week numbers using TDD

11. mars 2008 Rickard .NET, C# 2.0, Unit testing (0)

The implementation of weeks according to ISO 8601 (used e.g. in Sweden) is faulty in .NET Framework. The implementation of weeks according to ISO 8601 (used e.g. in Sweden) is faulty in .NET Framework. In particular the GregorianCalendar and CultureInfo classes are faulty when it comes to ISO 8601.S... [More]

Crafting software

by Rickard Nilsson