It’s ridiculously easy to do integration testing against Entity Framework and a real database when you are using SpecsFor.   I use SpecsFor to do all my integration testing.   But it occurred to me that I’ve never publicly documented one of the common tricks I use: viewing data in the test database while the specs are…

There are lots of small fixes and improvements across the SpecsFor suite today.  Let’s take a look! [more] SpecsFor 4.4.0 First, the Any.NonNullValueOf partial matcher now works with nullable types! SUT.ShouldLookLike(() => new TestObject { OptionalDate = Any.NonNullValueOf<DateTime?>() }) I also added two new Should extension methods for checking IEnumerables for ascending/descending values: Assert.DoesNotThrow(() =>…

New versions of both SpecsFor.Web.Helpers and SpecsFor.Mvc rolled out this week, thanks to the contributions of two users from the community. [more] First, Dan Patterson was kind enough to improve the Fake* objects, making it possible to simulate AJAX requests.  He added two new interfaces that can be used for configuring the behavior of the…

I just shipped a small update to SpecsFor that improves the partial-matching story when dealing with dates. [more] Prior to this update, if you wanted to see if a DateTime value was “near” the current time, you had to do something like this: obj.ShouldLookLike(() => new TestObject { DateTimeValue = Some.ValueInRange(DateTime.Now.AddSeconds(-1), DateTime.Now) }) With version…