Ian Cooper [MVP]

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• Architecting LINQ To SQL Applications, part 5

  Let's return to the series on how to architect applications that use LINQ To SQL. First of all, for those you who missed it, a summary of where we have been: Part 1, Introduction Part 2, Layered Architectures Part 3, DAOs and Repositories Part 4,... Posted Feb 17 2008, 05:35 PM by Ian Cooper with | with 17 comment(s) Filed under: Stubs, TDD, Featured, LINQ, Mocks

• Classicist vs. Mockist Test-Driven Development

  One thing that came up in a couple of sessions of Altnetconf UK was the old saw of classicist vs. mockist approaches to TDD. Martin Fowler has a great, and updated, article on the distinction between the two approaches here . Now I have to confess to... Posted Feb 04 2008, 01:23 PM by Ian Cooper with | with 19 comment(s) Filed under: altnetconf, AltNetUK, Fakes, Featured, Mocks, Stubs, TDD

• Mocks and the Dangers of Overspecified Software

  I'll be back on LINQ architecture after the holidays, but in the meantime, I wanted to share some of the bad, some of the places where we have had bitter experiences. When NMock first appeared we embraced the behaviour verification style that it supported... Posted Dec 19 2007, 09:14 AM by Ian Cooper with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Fakes, Mocks, Stubs, TDD, xUnit