I am writing this as a way to document something that is possible, but you probably shouldn’t do unless you really need to. Also, I’m sure this is not new, I just can’t find any mention of it on Google right now. Which probably means it is a bad idea. After all, if the Internet, […]
Read MoreI get an amazing amount of pushback to this idea which I see as a perfectly natural chain of logical deduction. Let’s try it, shall we? Specifications are typically written before code as instructions for what the code SHOULD do. Tests, (written before or after the code), are a set of instructions detailing what the […]
Read MoreI’m doing a gig for a local company (a non-software company) that is trying to build a development team. My job is two-fold: 1. help them get some software up and started so they have something to build on, 2. train their current staff (consisting of one developer) on good patterns and practices for software […]
Read MoreThere has been some interest (two people) in updating my Rhino Mocks presentation and re-publishing it. This is from a presentation that I gave for the West Michigan Day of .Net back in May 2007 (ages ago). This presentation consists of a Power Point deck with minimal slides (it was for a code camp) and […]
Read MoreSo there I am coding along with Unit Testing awesomeness and I decide I want to to try the VS2008 code coverage tool. A quick visit to Test > Edit Test Run Configurations > Local Test Run to turn on code coverage on my product assembly and I am in the money, or so I […]
Read MoreI have been delving into the unit testing capabilities of Visual Studio (sans NUnit), otherwise known as MSUnit. In truth, MSUnit is a name the community came up with. The entire contents of the unit testing framework are in this namespace: Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting Overall, there is more to the unit testing capabilities baked into the IDE […]
Read MoreAfter a few weeks in our software development environment, a new co-worker told me, “I feel like I am on an episode of Iron Chef.” He came from a structured, design-up-front environment with prescribed architecture and product line development practices. So, although he was expressing some exasperation with a chaotic Agile development process, I choose to take this […]
Read MoreMichael Hunter of Microsoft writes a nice blog about testing practices over at Dr. Dobb’s. He recently posted about some common software test terms and solicited questions about other terms some of us might find confusing, so I responded. His post today is a response to my questions about some testing terms that have seemed ambiguous […]
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