Adding custom assertions to MSTest

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In my last post I talked about migrating from NUnit to MSTest and mentioned that there were some Assert methods that NUnit provided which did not have corresponding methods in MSTest. For reference, those unavailable Asserts are: Assert.IsNaN Assert.IsEmpty Assert.IsNotEmpty <code class="language-plaintext... Read more

Migrating from NUnit to MSTest

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I have been writing a lot of unit tests over the past month using the Microsoft Test (MSTest) unit testing framework that is now part of Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition (and higher SKUs). Currently I have about 223 unit tests covering 39 classes (about 18K lines of code, 325... Read more

Upcoming Code Camps for the South East

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I’m trying to put together my speaking schedule for upcoming code camps in the South East region. Right now I just want to know when the upcoming code camps are so I can determine which ones might best fit my schedule. I only know of a few, so if you... Read more

How to unit test this code?

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This question is for all of the TDD and unit test folks, so I’m hoping someone comes up with an answer. I’ve been writing unit tests and analyzing code coverage for one of my libraries for about a week now and I’m starting to see the end, at least for... Read more

Unit Testing and Expected Exceptions

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When writing unit tests that cover methods that can throw known exceptions, you generally want to make sure that your tests actually test the conditions that can cause the exception and that you do, in fact, throw the correct exception. Most unit test frameworks, including MSTest and NUnit, use an... Read more