The Testability Explorer Blog

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

We are going to start doing test driven development at my work. So I’ve been looking at ways around the problems that I’ve previously encountered when trying to write unit tests. Most of these problems centre around not being able to isolate the logic that I want to test. Often there are large amounts of [...]

Unit Testing Of Mobile Device Applications

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

I had quite a few troubles getting set up for unit testing of mobile device applications. I was trying to write tests for the compact framework on Windows Mobile 5. I did eventaully get the tests up and running with the device emulator, but the tests where terribly slow to run, it was taking about [...]

Combatting Slow Build Cycles

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

You’ve just written a little piece of code and would like to try it out so you hit build … as you wait for the code to compile your mind starts to wander and by the time the build has finished after a minute or more you’ve completely lost your focus.
Is that scenario familiar to [...]