Test-Driven Design: Using Mocks And Tests To Design Role-Based Objects

There are many ways to test WCF services, but the socket-based approach is flexible and very useful for security and performance testing. We show you show you how to test a WCF service using a network socket based approach.James McCaffreyMSDN Magazine February 2010

Write a simple browser-based request-response test automation using JavaScript that's platform independent and useful when you are working in a highly dynamic environment.James McCaffreyMSDN Magazine January 2010

Creating and maintaining a unit test suite for legacy code can be a challenge. Pex automatically produces a small test suite with high code and assertion coverage.Nikhil SachdevaMSDN Magazine December 2009

In this month's column, James McCaffrey explains exactly what pairwise testing is and provides you with complete C# source code for a production quality pairwise testing tool named QICT.James McCaffreyMSDN Magazine December 2009

Over the past few years, federated security models and claims-based access control have become increasingly popular. Platform tools in this area have also come a long way. Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) is a rich identity model framework designed for building claims-based applications and services and for supporting active and passive federated security scenarios.Michele Leroux BustamanteMSDN Magazine November 2009

Schema- first contract-first modeling of Web Services gives you the ability to model your contracts with an XML-centric mindset. This process keeps you focused on universally acceptable types and the hierarchical data structures that can be represented in XML.Christian Weyer, Buddhike de SilvaMSDN Magazine October 2009

This column presents an approach to Antirandom (AR) testing the author calls partial AR string testing, which can be used to test a wide range of software systems.James McCaffreyMSDN Magazine October 2009

In Visual C++ 10 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 4, Microsoft is introducing new libraries and runtimes to significantly ease the process of expressing parallelism in your code base, together with new tool support for performance analysis and debugging of parallel applications. In this article, you will learn about debugging support in Visual Studio 2010, much of which is focused on task-based programming models.Stephen Toub, Daniel MothMSDN Magazine September 2009

This article describes methods for designing screens in a user interface and the technology frameworks that support screen design.Ambrose Little, Charles B. KreitzbergMSDN Magazine September 2009

After a brief refresher on procedural and object based patterns for organizing the business logic layer, the author focuses on data transfer objects and the impact they have on the development of the software project.Dino EspositoMSDN Magazine August 2009