Category: Unit testing

Unit testing

A glimmer of hope

In September 2003 I visited the friendly city of Arhus in Denmark to deliver a talk at the JAOO conference. At that time, JAOO was an established software development conference, with well-known speakers such as Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, Linda Rising, and Erich Gamma. And me. When I arrived at the venue, one of the organizers offered to give me […]

Application Migration, Client /server, Domain driven design, Enterprise architecture, Frameworks, Hibernate / nHibernate, Java, microservices, Service oriented architecture, Software architecture, Unit testing, Value objects

Microservices. The good, the bad and the ugly

Back in 1988, when I was first employed by a company for writing software, the world was fairly simple. The development environment we had was character-based, the database was integrated and traversed with cursors, and we built a whole new administrative system covering everything but the kitchen sink. It took us five years to complete the project, basically because the […]

.Net, Adf.Net, C#, Frameworks, Smart use cases, Unit testing

Validating sending mail messages in smart use case unit tests

When building applications with the Adf framework, smart use cases are implemented in task classes. Quite regularly mail messages are sent from tasks. To do so we use the MailManager class. Using this class mail messages are usually build up as in the following code example. To send mail messages, the MailManager plugs in an implementation of the IMailProvider interface. […]

.Net, Anti-patterns, ASP.NET, C#, Design patterns, Domain driven design, Extension methods, Frameworks, Service oriented architecture, Smart use cases, Software architecture, Talks, Testing, Unit testing, User stories

November 12, 2010 – Microsoft TechEd Europe. How smart use cases can drive web development

[Session ARC205 at Microsoft TechEd Europe 2010 in Berlin] Use cases have been around for many years describing the requirements of software development projects. From a developer’s point of view, use cases are often seen as too abstract and too complex to develop code from. Until now, that is. During this interactive talk, speaker Sander Hoogendoorn will demonstrate how to […]