7 December 2008
Testability is important to today's developers, and without a mocking framework available for Silverlight developers today, it is possible, albeit with a little extra work, to create testable components.
Maurice de Beijer has blogged about his solution for creating a testable Flickr web service API. He's created TestableWebClient and TestableOpenReadCompletedEventArgs types to assist with this, and kept the abstraction simple and to-the-point.
I agree with Maurice's comments: it isn't perfect, it isn't awful; it isn't pretty; but hey, it does get the job done, and he's found a good solution for this today.
Maurice also previously posted his own introduction guide to Silverlight unit testing.
Just wanted to pass along, definitely check this out!
Jeff Wilcox is a Software Engineer at Microsoft in the Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), helping Microsoft engineers use, contribute to and release open source at scale.