MakeItEasy: Making SUTs with Minimal Fuss

Introducing a new library that enables friction-free creation of systems under test, with autowired FakeItEasy Fakes.

Making a Duck-Dog using FakeItEasy's CallsBaseMethod(s)

A while back, Roman Turovskyy wrote FakeItEasy: Be Careful When Wrapping an Existing Object, an interesting post highlighting some of the difficulties of faking classes (as opposed to interfaces, which by virtue of having no behaviour of their own, are quite a bit more predictable). It's well-written and I enjoyed …

Limit FakeItEasy extension scanning with a bootstrapper

As of version 1.18.0, a client-supplied bootstrapper can be used to determine which external assembly files are scanned during startup.

Last time, I talked about how [FakeItEasy extension scanning had improved in version 1.13.0][betterscan]. While this change has dramatically improved startup times in many situations …

Better formatter auto-discovery in FakeItEasy 1.13.0

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the problems that FakeItEasy's assembly scanning was causing while it was looking for user-defined extensions. To recap, FakeItEasy was scanning all assemblies in the AppDomain and the working directory, looking for types that implemented IArgumentValueFormatter, IDummyDefinition, or IFakeConfigurator. This process was quite slow …

FakeItEasy's argument formatter auto-discovery - boon and inconvenience

Hi again. At the Day Job, we've recently dropped Typemock Isolator and NMock2 as the mocking frameworks of choice in the products that I work on. We've jumped on the FakeItEasy bandwagon. So far, we're enjoying the change. FakeItEasy is powerful enough and the concepts and syntax fit the mind …