Comments on: Rebooting My Development Environment

By: David Findley

David Findley — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:48:41 +0000

I use VisualSVN and love it.

http://www.visualsvn.com

It sits on top of tortoise svn and gives you the IDE integration you want. It is not a MSSCI plugin so it doesnt have any of the binding issues people mention.

By: David Starr

David Starr — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:42:18 +0000

Update: I just got an NCover license and will be comparing that to VSTS code coverage out of the box in the next few days.

By: Reflective Perspective - Chris Alcock » The Morning Brew #302

Reflective Perspective - Chris Alcock » The Morning Brew #302 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 05:47:18 +0000

[...] Rebooting My Development Environment – David Starr looks at some alternative tools for unit testing, code coverage and Continuous integration, comparing them to his usual tool set. [...]

By: Bert Huijben

Bert Huijben — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:46:14 +0000

Hi,

Can you please contact us on the AnkhSVN problem you refer to in your mail. (It is not a known or earlier reported issue, but we like to have more details so we can resolve it anyway).

Thanks,
Bert
(One of the AnkhSVN developers)

By: Sergio Pereira

Sergio Pereira — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:22:17 +0000

@David it really sounds like NCover is the real reason you dismissed everything else. I personally never had any serious problem running NCover. Sometimes it was tricky to get it right with NAnt and cc.net, but nothing impossible or impractical.

@Tony, if you have not tried AnkhSvn since the 2.0 release, especially the recent update in the last few days, you should give it a second look. It’s got nothing to do with v1.0, forget that thing

By: David Pokluda

David Pokluda — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:13:04 +0000

Thank you for the post and for the information about Sneal – I will check it out.

By: Tony Rasa

Tony Rasa — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:26:58 +0000

TestDriven: very fast. much less overhead than either the R# runner or MStest runner (imho of course).

ide integration: If the only dev tool I used was Visual Studio then maybe having everything in the solution wouldn’t be a big deal, but I use all sorts of tools, and I have files and folders that I don’t necessarily want to be strictly under the control of visual studio for the scc integration to work. [Yeah, I know, next we'll be arguing about which text editor is better.]

I know that the SCC bindings in vs08 are much improved, so maybe I should Give Ankh A Chance and see if my opinions change.

I’ll end with this: I think its funny that something I am often annoyed by (IDE integration) is, to somebody else, a terrific thing. You just have to love a line of work which allows such an incredibly wide expanse of opinions!

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:10:40 +0000

A few more pros and one con for these tools…

TestDriven:
Results in Output pane, rather than a window.
If all tests passed, the only message I see is xx Tests Passed, 0 failed (I don’t need to see a green indicator for every test.)
On failed tests, double-clicking on the noted exception (with a line number) takes you to that line in your code.
The ability to rerun a test, no matter where you are in the code.

TeamCity:
Once you get NCover running, integrating it with TeamCity is fairly straightforward.
With a little work, you could probably integrate the output from MSTest as well (using trx files)

MSTest:
– My biggest gripe with MSTest and the MSTest runner is all the files/folders it creates with each test run
When running MSTest with TestDriven, these files are not created/retained.

By: Arjan`s World » LINKBLOG for March 6, 2009

Arjan`s World » LINKBLOG for March 6, 2009 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:58:04 +0000

[...] Rebooting My Development Environment – David Starr As an exception to all Team System battering, David is not that unhappy with it‘ I am not unhappy with the tooling I am getting and will probably uninstall NCover, NUnit, TestDriven.NET and stay with what I am getting from VSTS ‘ [...]

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:30:22 +0000

I use UltraEdit for a lot of things that VS cannot do, it’s a must have on my development machine.