Wisconsin .Net Users Group -Advanced Integration Testing

Over the last few years I’ve been working on AuthorizationHub, and I’ve really become a convert of using integration tests to validate that my code works properly. It’s a unique project because the software supports multiple databases, and obviously I’m keen on implementing authorization correctly.

All the time spent continuously improving those tests has led me to a pretty good understanding of how to setup integration tests, write short simple tests, and get the most out of them.

Last night I had the pleasure of talking with the folks at the Wisconsin .Net Users Group, about integration tests. There was plenty of great discourse, which I think is really one of the hallmarks of a good user group. If you get a chance to attend their meetings, please do. They are wonderful, kind and engaged.

Here is a link to the demo project here if you care to peruse.

https://github.com/JZuerlein/StockPriceTracker

Time Zones And DateTimeOffsets

If you sit down with a group of software developers and have a couple of beers, eventually people start telling war stories, and one of them will be about DateTime values. The best cure for those problems are to include a time zone when you record a datetime value, and the easiest way to do that is to use a DateTimeOffset. I’m going to show you how to add time zones to a React application, and utilize the power of DateTimeOffsets.