In my last post I created a simple Cake Addin that was for replacing appSettings in a app/web.config.  As promised, one of the other aspects of a creating a cake adding will be writing tests.  So let’s cover how you can get start testing a Cake addin. ICakeContext Since we are creating an extension method on the ICakeContext, we need an implementation we can use to test.  One solution to this is to create a fake. Ultimately what you need to do is implement the aspects of the ICakeContext you use within your extension method.  In my example, the only… Read More »Testing a Cake Addin

Who doesn’t love cake?  There are a ton of existing addins for Cake, but you may run into a situation where you want to create your own cake add in.  Here’s how! Note: If you have no idea what Cake is, check out my intro to Automating Builds with Cake (C# Make) post first. https://youtu.be/qVd0VNII5nIVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: How to create a Cake (C# Make) Addin (https://youtu.be/qVd0VNII5nI) AppSettings Replacer In my case I wanted to replace some values in the appSettings of an app.config.  There are already a couple existing ways to do this, such as… Read More »How to create a Cake Addin