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Powershell, Pester and Octopus
Notes from creating Powershell scripts with Pester Unit testing and deploying via Octopus deploy “Invoke-Pester” will run the pester test files. The test files need to be named something.tests.ps1 to be discovered by the Pester test runner. When passing params via Powershell in Octopus…
Web Scraping – How to scrape Instragram
Targeting Instagram I’ve blogged about web scraping before mainly with Raspberry Pi and Python (utilising BeautifulSoup). Finding a free weekend I decided to revisit scraping and looked at Instagram. Disclaimer Any code herein is purely experimental and just looking at what could be achieved….
Moq – Mocking the same method call with multiple results
The Scenario I have a loop in production code that has evolved into processing batches of records. I need to modify an existing unit test to accommodate mocking the same method call each time through the loop returning different results on each loop (as…
Accessing an internal class from an external assembly
I was working with a customer’s code base recently and I noticed a separate Unit test project was referencing an internal class in a different assembly. Initially, I expected a code smell and perhaps some kind of wrapper that was exposing an internal class…
Moq Vs Rhino Mocks
What follows is simply a few rough notes I made with experience with a Moq framework and converting to Rhino Mocks: Asserting a method call ISomethingRepository mockedSomethingRepository = MockRepository.GenerateMock(); var person = new Person { name = “Bob” }; // Act var something =…