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How do I unit-test a class which depends on HttpContext?

Today I was profiling an application. The timings pointed to a piece of code that executed a query using LINQ. I opened an SQL profiler and saw what queries were performed. Here they are: SELECT [t3].[value] AS [Key] FROM ( SELECT ( SELECT [t2].[Role

This past week at Camp Roberts has been incredible. All of the groups present did an amazing work, and we got to test InSTEDD’s GeoChat in a completely different scenario and integrate it with most of the other applications present to come up with...

Sharing users among systems

This week Star Tides, in partnership with the Naval Postgraduate School, will be organizing a Concept-based Experimentation (CBE) in Camp Roberts (CA). The objective is to to analyze the state of the art of current social and information related applications...

Eclipse plugin to exclude svn and cvs folders in text search

Tests are also Code

I stumbled upon an excellent article by Martin Fowler in which he describes the difference between stubs and mocks, and afterwards the difference between classic and mockist TDD. Be warned, the article is a few years old, but still a highly recommendable...

Some time ago I found a quotation by Buckminster Fuller: When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. Although...

Again, Sergio, a friend of mine, came up with a need: to sort Eclipse Java proposals by hierarchy. What that means is that if you have a type C < B < A (where < means subclass of), first C‘s methods will be shown, then B’s methods and finally A’s methods...