Creating your own primitive type

It’s a very rare requirement, but sometimes in .NET you have to create your own primitive and make it behave as close as possible to a native CTS (common type system) type. “That shouldn’t be hard” would be your first thought, until you start considering all the scenarios in which it could be used.

Unit Testing – Setup pattern (Moq)

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In my previous post I mentioned that large unit test setups can be difficult to maintain / understand. This problem can be reduced by following a test pattern. I want to share with you a pattern I use, and I think works really well. In this post I will be using C#, Moq libary and Visual Studio test tools.

To start here are some things I believe make a good suite of unit tests:

• Easy to identify data dependencies of tests.
• Mocking is not repeated every test.
• Test are clear and easy to understand / maintain.
• New tests can be added with relative ease.

In order to explain this testing pattern I have forked my buddies TodoMVC app, and introduced a service layer, repository pattern and test project. You can see my source code with an example test class on github.

The TodoModule (service layer) has a number of public methods; Get…

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Object Oriented, Test Driven Design in C# and Java: A Practical Example Part #1

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For a brief overview, please refer to this post.

At this point, many tutorials start by launching into a “Hello, World” style tutorial, with very little practical basis.

This isn’t the most exciting concept, so let’s try a more practical example. Instead of churning out boring pleasantries, our application is going to do something a bit more interesting…build robots.

Specifically, our application is going to build awesome robots with big guns.

Ok, let’s get started with a narrative description of what we’re going to do.

“Mechs with Big Guns” is a factory that produces large, robotic vehicles designed to shoot other large, robotic vehicles. Robots are composed of several robotic parts, delivered by suppliers. Parts are loaded into a delivery bay, and are transported by worker drones to various rooms; functional parts such as arms, legs, etc., are dispatched to an assembly room. Guns…

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Extending mocking with Moq

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In the last part of my Dependency Injection article I introduced the term of “mocking”. This kind of test double can be really powerful. Yet in my example I had to create 2 new classes (my mocks) to be able to test my functionality in order to reduced coupling. Here is the code used by the tests:

class MockNotifier : INotifier
{public MockNotifier(){
        NotifyHasBeenCalled =false;}
 
    publicbool NotifyHasBeenCalled {get;privateset;}
 
    publicvoid Notify(User user){
        NotifyHasBeenCalled =true;}}
 
class MockRepository : IUserRepository
{publicbool HasValidatedNotification {get;set;}
 
    public User GetById(int userId){returnnew User { HasActivatedNotification = HasValidatedNotification };}}
 
[TestClass]publicclass NotificationServiceTest
{private NotificationService _notificationService;private MockNotifier _mockNotifier;private MockRepository _mockRepository

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