Articles by garymcleanhall (Articles: 2, Technical Blogs: 4)

The wonderful things that decorating a simple interface can produce.

A Behavior Driven Design (BDD) library adding a clearer syntax and better organization to unit tests. Currently tested working with NUnit and MSTest.

Skyhooks are undesirable, how to replace them in your code.

You would save a lot of effort by starting with the simplest thing that works.

I try to follow a test-first approach at all times. However, the way in which I organize my unit tests has evolved over the past five years or so. Originally, I would follow the pattern espoused in unit testing tutorials: This is pretty much as simple as it gets.

Whenever I see a method call like this: Enum.TryParse(stringRepresentationOfEnum, true, out enumValue); I wonder what the `true` parameter really represents. In this instance, because I know that method from past experience, I know that this is the ignoreCase parameter. However, what if this is a to