Author Archives: erictummers

About erictummers

Working in a DevOps team is the best thing that happened to me. I like challenges and sharing the solutions with others. On my blog I’ll mostly post about my work, but expect an occasional home project, productivity tip and tooling review.

Vacation project Apple TV

Posted on December 30, 2013 by erictummers

My jailbroken Apple TV plays media files from my NAS. Together with the Airplay from other apple devices this is my home entertainment system. But bigger files and higher bit rates caused problems. Multiple buffering and loading breaks during playback … Continue reading →

Posted in Tooling | Tagged airport express, Airport Extreme, Apple TV, Blackmagic Disk Speed Test, Entertainment, Network, Vacation | Leave a comment

TestMatrix

Posted on November 29, 2013 by erictummers

I’ve been using the GhostDoc extension from SubMain for some time. It puts those triple slash (///) documentation tags above my csharp code for me. All I have to do is hit some shortcut keys. Although I never posted about … Continue reading →

Posted in Tooling | Tagged Add-in, code coverage, Profiler, TestMatrix, unittest, visual studio, Visual Studio 2012 | Leave a comment

System.DateTime isolation

Posted on November 1, 2013 by erictummers

After System.Random Isolation I now want to isolate System.DateTime. The information in the struct is not very interesting, but the Now property is. That is a static property. Does that require a different approach? Hardly. IDateTime First I’ll define the … Continue reading →

Posted in Test | Tagged datetime, design pattern, isolation, Rhino mocks, static, stub, unittest, wrapper | Leave a comment

System.Random isolation

Posted on September 23, 2013 by erictummers

Writing a unit test is all about isolating the code under test. The best way to do this is by using interfaces. An interface only described the methods and properties, but lets you change the implementation as long as you … Continue reading →

Posted in Test | Tagged design pattern, isolation, random, Rhino mocks, stub, unittest, wrapper | 6 Comments

Automation and Extensibility issue

Posted on August 23, 2013 by erictummers

Today I wrote a wrapper to be in control when unit testing some code that uses System.Random. After completing the task, which is mindless automation, I decided to create a T4 template for it. After completing the few lines in … Continue reading →

Posted in Tooling | Tagged design pattern, T4, unittest, wrapper | 2 Comments