Josephwoodward.co.uk Website Review

Have you ever needed to skip a test under a certain condition? Say, the presence or absence of an environmental variable, or some conditional runtime check? No, me neither - that was up until recently. Skipping tests is usually a good practice to get into, but I use the word usually here because as with all things in software there sometimes certain constraints or parameters that may well justify doing so. In my case I needed to skip a certain test if I was running Having done a bit of digging I found two options that would work: Depending on your scenario it might be possible to simple use an #if preprocessor directive to include the test. If you're wishing to exclude a test based on the operating system the test were running on then this may be a solution. My scenario also involved checking the presence of environmental variables, which I'd rather do through code. This led me to the next XUnit already has the ability to skip a test by providing a reason for skipping the test in question via the Skip property that exists within So all we have to do is extend the FactAttribute clas* and set that property: public sealed clas* IgnoreOnAppVeyorLinuxFact : FactAttribute {     public IgnoreOnAppVeyorLinuxFact() {         if(RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Linux) && IsAppVeyor()) {             Skip = Ignore on Linux when run via AppVeyor;         }     private static bool IsAppVeyor()         => Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable(APPVEYOR) != null; Hello! Sorry for the lack of posts recently - I haven't died or lost interested in blogging, I've been super busy with multiple things one of which broke my site. For this curious here's what I've been up to: that was unanimous around the team of organisers was how we needed a new website. The previous website was a free SharePoint hosted solution that had a number of problems (slow, design could be improved, lots of manual processes, speaker submissions by sending