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The 2008 Advent Calendar situation

So for this year's Advent calendar I'll focus on a made up file utility object. The object is called FileUtil and it implements an interface called IFileUtil which looks like this: public interface IFileUtil { void Create( string content); void Delete(); Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 30, 2008 11:30 AM by cellfish | 2 Comments
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Advent Calendar 2008

A few weeks ago I was involved in a discussion where we looked at a number of different ways to write the same test. I was amazed of how simple it is to write even a simple test in several different ways, all with their own pros and cons. So I decided Read More...
Posted Friday, November 28, 2008 11:28 AM by cellfish | 1 Comments
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Yet another reason for loving xUnit.net

I recently noticed a thing about xUnit.net that makes me love that framework even more than before . As you probably already know, an important aspect of (unit) tests is that they can be executed in any order. xUnit.net helps you remember this since it Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2008 11:26 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Getting your priorities right

I think an important thing about being agile a great developer is to make sure your backlog is correctly prioritized. This both means that everything should have updated priorities where business value is the key factor. It also means that each of your Read More...
Posted Monday, November 24, 2008 11:24 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Constraints as User Stories

A few months ago I wrote a little about constraints as an alternative to user stories. Constraints are what many of you know as non-functional requirements . Today I read an interesting post by Mike Cohn where he argues that you should write your constraints Read More...
Posted Saturday, November 22, 2008 11:22 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Expensive fraud prevention fee

When you apply for a US Visa you have to pay a fee of $131 per applicant. Depending on type of visa you might also have to pay a $500 fraud prevention fee. I paid all this in advance and went happy to the US embassy this morning. It was pretty cold so Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 20, 2008 12:44 PM by cellfish | 2 Comments
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Dangers of using Visual Studio 2008 Team System Code Coverage Tool for Native C++

So now you know how to get coverage reports for native C++ using Visual Studio 2008 Team System (if not - read this ). There are a few things you need to know before you get excited. First of all the only metrics you get are line and block coverage. A Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 2:18 PM by cellfish | 2 Comments
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Native C++ Code Coverage reports using Visual Studio 2008 Team System

The code coverage tool in Visual Studio 2008 Team System is quite easy to use from within the IDE unless you want code coverage for your native C++ code. In order to generate a code coverage report for native C++ you have to use the command line tools. Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 16, 2008 11:16 AM by cellfish | 6 Comments
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Making it easy is not a single responsibility

The single responsibility principle is generally considered to be a good principle when designing software. My experience is that code written using this principle turns out to be easier to understand, test and maintain. But what is a responsibility? Read More...
Posted Friday, November 14, 2008 10:50 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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System Center Cross Platform and Open Source

Some news about System Center Cross Platform extensions. It will be in the box with the next release of System Center but the biggest news I think is that not only the open source taken into the product will be open source. The code used to discover and Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 8:30 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Refactoring for dummies

I was recently looking at a web-cast and it was not related to refactoring at all, but the presenter said something about refactoring that just blew my mind. The code he started with looked something like this: public ClassD GetD() { ClassA a = new ClassA Read More...
Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 1:13 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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