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Mumblings of a Madman
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Just somewhere that I can post ideas, thoughts, mumblings, musings, whinges, shouts and pictures for you all to read.
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"Signature of the body and declaration in a method implementation do not match"
Whilst teaching somebody about unit testing and particular mocking, I came across an error with some code that said, "Signature of the body and declaration in a method implementation do not match". This seemed like quite a bizarre error message, and...
BUG - VS Code Coverage automatically closes testrunconfig Dialog
This refers to a solution which has a project that is a custom project template, such as BizTalk or Reporting Services.When the testrunconfig Dialog box is opened, either by double clicking it in solutionitems, or through the test menu, 'Edit Test Ru...
Unit Testing - Watch out!
I just thought that I'd write a little article to discuss some of the things to watch out for when unit testing. People tend to talk more about why it is or isn't good, and that you should use it, I'm proposing to tell you what to do when you do!The...
Software patterns - useful or over-used?
Recently, on the MSDN forums I had someone comment that design patterns are largely over-used. The answer I gave to a question involved the use of a design pattern for a developer who was clearly inexperienced.The comment was that the developer shou...
Making a mockery of Testing
How much testing is enough testing? If for example, you have to deliver a piece of software, some functionality and you have tight deadlines to meet, is 50% of code tested sufficient enough? How do you know that you have tested the most likely to fa...
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Alan Jobe Said:
I'm impressed by the way you've set up multiple blogs to talk about different types of things with different audiences and enjoyed reading your remarks as an Australian about politics.
