testing

I like to make my development life as easy as possible - and removing small irritations is a great way of doing this. Having used Shouldly in anger for a long time, I have to say I feel a little hamstrung when going back to just using NUnit’s assertions. I have been known on a couple of projects which use only NUnit assertions, when trying to solve a test failure with array differences, to install Shouldly, fix the test, then remove Shouldly again!...

When it comes to configuring StructureMap, it supports the use of Registries. Registries support everything that the standard configure method does(new Container(c => { /* */});). There are two main reasons that I use the registries rather then doing all my configuration in the Container’s lambda: separation of concerns (one registry per area of code) and easier testing (which we will go into shortly). The only down side I can see to using registries is that it can scatter your configuration across your codebase - but if you have ReSharper, doing a ‘Find Implementations’ on Registry will find them all for you, so it really isn’t much of a down side....