On my current project I was troubleshooting a failing integration test that makes use of the Sitecore FakeDB Serialization module, which can declarative load a branch of content directly from the file system. The setup method for this test was reporting a duplicate key exception, so I used PowerShell to identify the culprit.
Explorations
into Sitecore and .Net
Monday, July 10, 2017
Saturday, April 22, 2017
Readable Tests
There's a great little chapter in Growing Object Oriented Software Guided by Tests on how to write helper methods for building complex test data. The specific techniques are somewhat less relevant in a post AutoFixture world, but the chapter also makes a powerful case that test code should read as English prose.
Monday, January 2, 2017
First steps with SpecFlow and Selenium
I've always been a Unit Testing guy, but reading Growing Object Oriented Software Guided by Tests really brought home the role an acceptance test outer structure can play in an iterative development process.
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Zapping Solr Cores with Powershell
Imagine you've been working on a feature that creates Sitecore Solr indexes with SIM. Three's a lot of testing that goes into that.
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Disposing of a DLL
So I've been working on a feature for Sitecore Instance Manager to automate installing Sitecore instances with Solr turned on. This has been pulled in to the Develop branch of SIM and should hopefully hit the downloadable version soon.
Wednesday, October 26, 2016
NCrunch
If you want to make unit testing and TDD truly addictive, you should look at NCrunch, which basically gives you while-you-type intellisense for unit tests.
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Another Look at Sitecore and Unit Testing
At Sitecore Symposium 2016, I will be giving a talk on unit testing in Sitecore. The focus of this talk is on the notion of testability.
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Debugging and Creating PDBs with ReSharper
Being able to debug Sitecore code is an important skill for supporting Sitecore solutions. There have been a number of excellent articles on how to do this, but they typically describe using JetBrains DotPeek product as a "symbol server". (See http://bilyukov.com/debugging-sitecore-dotpeek/, and https://jammykam.wordpress.com/2015/01/11/how-to-debug-sitecore-kernel-in-visual/). An alternative, which I find somewhat simpler, is to use ReSharper to generate PDB files, and place those in your solution bin directory. I will walk you through that approach in this article.
Wednesday, January 13, 2016
The Pomodoro Technique
There is a special, lonely dread that accompanies a big, complex task. Am I up to it? Is it harder than I think? Am I missing something fundamental? I wonder what's going on on Twitter. Hey, I got retweeted...
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Properties in JavaScript
Continuing my exploration of JavaScript, with Kyle Simpson's this and Object Prototypes as my guide, I'm going to look at some of the functionality introduced with ES5 to allow greater control over the behavior of object properties, which Simpson looks at in Chapter 3 of his book.
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