1 Mar
2010

An Evolution of Test-Specification Styles – My Journey to MSpec

By: Richard Cirerol Category:UncategorizedTag: , , , :14 Comments on An Evolution of Test-Specification Styles – My Journey to MSpec

Over the last few years, the practice of Test-Driven Design and Behavior-Driven Design has increased in acceptance, even if its practice has not increased in equal proportion.  From my perspective, specification-based design is a natural way to develop software.  Each developer has a preferred framework, and a framework they loathe.  In the .NET world, there […]

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30 Nov
2009

Wrapping up the StructureMap Automocking Container

By: Richard Cirerol Category:UncategorizedTag: , , , :3 Comments on Wrapping up the StructureMap Automocking Container

UPDATE: I apologize…the original wrapper did not allow injected dependencies.  I have fixed this bug and updated the sample.

I have been using StructureMap.AutoMocking with MSpec (Machine.Specifications) and Rhino.Mocks for a few months now. Although I am very comfortable with the patterns that emerge from using the frameworks together, introducing StructureMap.Automocking to other developers is sometimes challenging. I decided to wrap the details of the container to make the intention clearer and explanation easier. I have started using this wrapper in my projects, and have found it makes building up specifications more efficient in my daily coding.

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1 Nov
2009

State Pattern, Enumeration Class and Fluent NHibernate (Oh my!)

By: Richard Cirerol Category:UncategorizedTag: , , :8 Comments on State Pattern, Enumeration Class and Fluent NHibernate (Oh my!)

Recently, I needed to change a basic enumeration into a full-fledged state pattern. After getting all my domain classes updated, I began reviewing the persistence layer. And I hit a wall. I wasn’t sure how I wanted to update my Fluent NHibernate convention to persist the current state.

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6 Oct
2009

AutoMapper Introduction and Samples from NETDUG

By: Richard Cirerol Category:General PostTag: :10 Comments on AutoMapper Introduction and Samples from NETDUG

In September, Cory Isakson and I presented AutoMapper to the Boise .NET Developer User Group (NETDUG).  As promised, I have included the sample code here.  AutoMapper 1.0 RC1 is available on the CodePlex site. At my company, we have embraced convention-over-configuration throughout our applications, from our data access framework (Fluent NHibernate) to our IoC container […]

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9 Aug
2009

Implementing Team City for .NET Projects, Part 5: Deployments

By: Richard Cirerol Category:UncategorizedTag: , :3 Comments on Implementing Team City for .NET Projects, Part 5: Deployments

My apologies to all those who have been waiting for the deployment scenario ? I appreciate your patience.  My approach to deployments has been a moving target ? as it is starting to firm up a bit, I thought  I would write down some thoughts. For more information on this series, please see the introductory […]

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24 May
2009

Implementing TeamCity for .NET Projects, Part 4: Using Build Scripts

By: Richard Cirerol Category:UncategorizedTag: , , , :7 Comments on Implementing TeamCity for .NET Projects, Part 4: Using Build Scripts

For more information on this series, please see the introductory post.? This post also assumes that you have completed parts 1-3.? The sample solution has been updated with new build scripts as of May 24, 2009.? If you have downloaded the solution previously, please download the updated solution.? You can explore the source or create […]

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19 May
2009

Implementing TeamCity for .NET Projects, Part 3: Running Tests, Nightly Builds, and Creating Artifacts

By: Richard Cirerol Category:UncategorizedTag: , :6 Comments on Implementing TeamCity for .NET Projects, Part 3: Running Tests, Nightly Builds, and Creating Artifacts

For more information on this series, please see the introductory post.  This post also assumes that you have completed parts 1 and 2. With our basic solution build, we want to start running our unit tests on every check-in, create a nightly build (that runs both unit and integration tests), and generate some artifacts. Running […]

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