Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

04 Apr 2009

Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager

A while ago i heared Joel Spolsky shamelessly promote Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineeri...
03 Apr 2009

POC: Moq API adapter for Rhino Mocks

One of my main concerns with third party software, and software in general, is maintainability. The Rhino Mocks project ...
28 Mar 2009

xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code

xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code starts with narratives on philosophy, principles, strategies and test smells....
24 Mar 2009

Strict mocks lead to overspecification

Here is an example that demonstrates how strick mocks lead to overspecification. Imagine that we are creating a simple s...
23 Mar 2009

Comparing Moq to Rhino Mocks

So which mocking framework should we use? Do we fall back on good old Rhino Mocks or do we choose for the new kid on the...
21 Mar 2009

Getting started with Moq

In this article I will demonstrate the Moq API by means of a simple application that allows the user to manage a quote. ...
14 Mar 2009

Another reason for not using mstest

As you can read in CA1001: Types that own disposable fields should be disposable. Pretty solid advice, but for some reas...
14 Mar 2009

Setup expectation with successive function calls using Moq

In the Quickstart guide we find an example that shows us how to setup a different return value for each invocation as fo...
05 Mar 2009

Using sed

For a couple of days now i’ve been pondering about posting something about my love for GNU text-utilities but neve...
23 Feb 2009

NHibernate in Action

Last week i received my copy of NHibernate in Action. This book provides much more than the typical examples you find in...