Category Archives: Test

Unittesting R scripts

Posted on February 22, 2021 by erictummers

We’re building a solution that uses some R scripts for data analysis and cleanup. The R scripts are tested during the integration phase when the database is available. We would like to test the scripts when new versions are pushed … Continue reading →

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A first look at IntelliTest

Posted on January 24, 2018 by erictummers

Looking into Visual Studio 2017 features I found that Pex was back in the form of IntelliTest. It was actually introduced in VS2015 but I’ve never seen it. Time to give it a spin. For this I use my Traffic … Continue reading →

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Effort: Unhandled exception while trying to initialize the content of Table

Posted on March 2, 2017 by erictummers

We use Effort with the CsvDataLoader in our integration tests. After adding a new data file we got an exception. On the forum every thread ended with something like “my bad” or “never mind”. Looking closer to my csv file showed the error: a typo … Continue reading →

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Start-SqlJobAndWait

Posted on November 9, 2016 by erictummers

We have some SqlJobs that we run in our regression tests. To automate this we need something that can start the job and wait for it to finish. Based on this post we know we need to poll the sysjobhistory … Continue reading →

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Be careful when using mocked repository

Posted on May 18, 2016 by erictummers

One of the software development best practices is to use interfaces and dependency injection. But be careful when using a mocked version of your repository. With FakeDbSet an InMemory IDbSet can be created for unit testing purposes. During setup you’d … Continue reading →

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