Automating Umbraco with PowerShell
Ever wanted to automate Umbraco as quickly as possible? Here's a couple of tricks to fire authenticated requests at it with PowerShell.…
Exploiting ApprovalTests for clearer tests
Ever written several asserts in one test because you have a big graph you want to verify? Here's how to never do that again.…
UmbracoSupport got typed content
Been unit testing Umbraco and suffer from stubbing hell, weird errors or just not the content types you want? Here's how to get the whole content engine running in your tests.…
Testing views with RazorGenerator
Want to add your ASP.NET views to the system under test? Here's a hidden gem that let's you do that in a jiffy.…
Generating documentation from NUnit tests
There's a lot of benefits with unit testing. One of the less exploited ones would be documentation. In this post I share a couple of tricks with NUnit to make it feasible.…
Potential freeze with Umbraco and SignalR
I hit a small glitch when running Umbraco 7.7 with the new SignalR dependency. It's only there if you have some old stuff. Delete a registry key, and you're off.…
Copying Umbraco datatype settings (prevalues).
Here's a quick tip on how to copy data type settings in Umbraco…
Automating creation of source data for tests
Use a lot of test-data when writing tests? Here's a quick way of preparing the infrastructure for file-based data.…
The basics of unit testing Umbraco just got simpler
Testing Umbraco has gotten even simpler in 2017. Here's what you need to get tucked in and don't think about it.…
Rather Package Manager Console than Print?
I don't know about you, but I printed my last sheet of code sometime during the mid-nineties. Yet when you press Ctrl+P in Visual Studio, guess what happens? You may print your code! Here's how to make it pop the Package Manager Console instead.…