Category Archives: Testing

A Dynamic Equality Assertion Method in C#

By ChrisEdwards | Published: January 30, 2011

Ever wanted to assert two objects were equal without having to manually compare their public properties one at a time? Now you can. This method asserts the equality of any two objects by comparing the values of all public, readable properties that have matching names and types. It will compare them even if the objects are different types. This may very well be the last object assertion method you will ever need!

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Entities, Services & Resources—Three Categories of Objects

By ChrisEdwards | Published: June 27, 2010

After working with domains for several years I find that there are three major categories of objects I work with: Entities, Services, and Resources. There are clear distinctions between these categories in their purpose, content, dependencies and roles. Understanding these categories clarifies what dependencies I should allow, what purpose the objects serve, and how I […]

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Extreme CI Part 3: The Visual Studio Macro.

By ChrisEdwards | Published: June 21, 2010

How I run a personal CI build every time I build my code in Visual Studio. Summary This week we’ll finish the series by creating the Visual Studio macro that automatically runs the Personal CI process every time we build the code. The Series In this series I show you how to take continuous integration […]

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Extreme CI Part 2: Setting up Git for a Personal CI

By ChrisEdwards | Published: June 20, 2010

How I run a personal CI build every time I build my code in Visual Studio. Summary This week we setup Git so it commits your changes and pushes them up to the personal CI server. We’ll also create a batch file to automate this process. In part 3 we’ll create the Visual Studio macro […]

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Extreme Continuous Integration: A Personal CI Build For Visual Studio – Part 1

By ChrisEdwards | Published: June 13, 2010

How I run a personal CI build every time I build my code in Visual Studio. Summary In this series I show you how to take continuous integration to the extreme by building a personal CI server that runs all your tests and adds a commit to source control every time you build in Visual […]

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