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Unit testing on compact framework applications

Posted on 16 October 2009 by Alexander Viken

Friday and time to do some browsing for interesting news.

I´ve been browsing for a long time now, looking for a mocking or isolation framework  to aid me with my unit tests. So far, i have not found anything.

Both NUnit and MSTest work with the compact framework. but none of the available mocking/isolation frameworks does so we are stuck with manually creating stubs and mocks. This is very time consuming and in a larger project you ´re going to have a hard time convincing anyone that there is time and money enough to replicate everything as mocks.

So, what to do? for the better part of a year i have from time to time been “nagging” Typemock about this, unfortunately with no luck yet. Today i posted a feature request to their forum with a poll and i would like everyone that are interested in compact framework development to keep hitting that yes button :)

The reason for targeting Typemock is that i totally likes their full framework version, it is _the_ best mock/isolation framework available.

Go here: http://www.typemock.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=1487 to comment and cast your vote! Please do! If this doesn´t work maybe i should start targeting Ayende Rahien instead and see if it wild be possible to get Rhino.Mocks running on the device development.

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About the author, Alexander Viken
Working as Chief Mobility Consultant at Creuna Norway. I received MSFT MVP for Device Application Development in June 2010 and are interested in mobility trends, the market, technology, software development for Windows Phone, iOS and Android mostly, but not exclusively. Scrum master that fights to keep it lean.
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