Almost every one of our projects moves towards a microservice architecture and our applications are rarely these huge web apps anymore, but instead they are a bunch of applications working together in a cluster of apps.…
This week I’ve been working on an integration to an external provider used for newsletters subscriptions and I’ve realised that if there’s one area where TDD is a match made in heaven it’s when you're doing API Testing.…
I had a little sparetime yesterday so I extended the UmbracoUnitTesting project with three additional tests examples and so I've also submitted these tests as a pull request to the Umbraco Documentation.…
I thought I would share a recommendation for a really great book that I think anyone who is new to Unit Testing should read: Starting to Unit Test: Not as Hard as You Think by Erik Deitrich. I read this book many years ago but I remember it to this day because it was an eye opener to what Unit Testing essentially is.…
Running your tests in parallel can significantly improve the speed of your test runs, but it could give you occasional problems especially if you're working on static implementations. Also turns out that depending on which testing framework you're using parallelism might be handled differently.…
Around two years ago Umbraco version 8 was released and I was scanning the internet trying to find some documentation on how to do Unit Testing in version 8, without any luck. No examples or tutorials had yet to be made for this and the official documentation did not have a section on Unit Testing. So I thought: How hard can it be?…
When you're writing unit tests you may sometimes find yourself in a situation where you need to be able to access an internal class from within another project such as your *.Tests project.…