Archive for the 'unit testing' Category
Stubbing out ServiceLocator for unit testing
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
There are certainly many ways to stub out dependency, using constructor injection, etc etc. Here is one way to quickly stub out ServiceLocator rather than implementing ServiceLocatorStub. Lets say you have code that uses a helper and the dependency is not quite the responsibility of that object but its the sub object that uses it. [...]
Learn The Sprout Method for adding new functionality
Monday, August 31st, 2009
In this Learn Series I am going to write about the Sprout Method which is in the book “Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers“, all I have to say is what a great book if you don’t have it, you should pick it up asap. Sprout Method is a technique that one can [...]
Extract and Override refactoring technique part 2
Friday, April 17th, 2009
This is part 2 of Extract and Override technique. You can find part 1 in my previous post. I am going to show another technique by using Factory Method to break dependency in your code. *WARNING* *WARNING* Before I begin I would like to say all these techniques are not the best design but they [...]
Extract and Override refactoring technique
Sunday, March 8th, 2009
When doing unit testing, one always comes to a point where there this “kind of hard” part to test since the part depends on something you might not have control over or depends on the functionality of the dependency to complete. In “Working Effectively with Legacy Code” by Michael C. Feathers talks about a dependency [...]
