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Pugh Decision Matrix

The Pugh decision matrix is a is a tool to help you make decisions when you're trying to sort out what alternative is the best but they all have their pros and cons. It can also be used to help a group decide on a decision. The way it works is that you Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 12, 2009 9:45 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Definition of mocking

When I read what Uncle Bob wrote today about how he usually hand-rolls his mocks it not only stirred up trouble. It also reminded me of why I hate the mock vs not mocking debate . First of all there is a clear difference in what people mean when they Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:40 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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How to burn down estimates in t-shirt sizes

Some people estimate their user stories is t-shirt sizes , i.e. each story is either small, medium or large. But how do you create a burn-down chart for these estimates in order to estimate when you will be done? I guess a very common way is to assign Read More...
Posted Monday, October 19, 2009 9:09 PM by cellfish | 2 Comments
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Creative solutions for remote team members

I'm always amazed when I hear how teams make remote team members being co-located with everybody else. But rolling a laptop around on a small cart is definitely the best I've heard about so far... Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 07, 2009 8:00 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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How to make FxCop really ignore things you supress

I recently experienced a weird behavior with FxCop. The classical " everything works fine on my machine but not on the build server " situation. In this case I got a few FxCop warnings from the build server but could not replicate when I ran FxCop locally Read More...
Posted Monday, August 03, 2009 8:03 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Visual Studio Options for TDD revisited

So I previously mention a neat way to set up visual studio to work with a console test runner so you don't switch to the error list all the time. There is a potential problem here. Sometimes you add a compilation error to the code. In this case the post Read More...
Posted Friday, July 31, 2009 7:31 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Visual Studio Options for TDD

When I first started using xUnit.net the only feasible way to run the tests for me was to use the console test runner as a post build event in visual studio. The only annoying thing about the default settings in visual studio with this setup however is Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 28, 2009 8:35 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Reusing functions in PowerShell

One thing that struck me as kind of odd when I first started to look at PowerShell and how to include other script files in order to gain access to functions in that other script is that all examples I found use an absolute path to include scripts (ex: Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 20, 2009 5:20 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Merging coverage reports with Bullseye

I've previously recommended Bullseye . And there is another nifty feature with Bullseye you should know; the ability to merge reports. This is pretty useful when you have one report from your unit tests and one from some other type of test run. Use this Read More...
Posted Monday, April 27, 2009 8:27 PM by cellfish | 2 Comments
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Continuous integration and gated check-ins

Continuous integration (CI) is generally considered a good thing. And there are some hard facts out there . And I agree that it is hard to find a situation where CI does not add value. I guess the only case where you would opt to not use CI is when the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 25, 2009 3:25 AM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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Design by contract in real life

Today I got a sweet reminder on developing with contracts when I read this (in Swedish). I always get a warm feeling in my body when I think about design by contract (which I have earlier mentioned here ). A summary of the Swedish post is that Microsoft Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 04, 2009 8:10 PM by cellfish | 1 Comments
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Agile tools

Agile (and especially Scrum) is very hyped in the software industry at the moment. And I think it is because of the hype that one of the most common questions I hear from people that want to start being agile is " what tools are there to help me? ". First Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 11, 2009 7:50 PM by cellfish | 0 Comments
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ALT.NET Sweden unconference summary

Yesterday the Swedish chapter of ALT.NET held its second unconference . It all started with six lightning talks (of which I held one) followed by an opens space session . It was a great experience to meet so many dedicated developers at once. And even Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 08, 2009 8:02 AM by cellfish | 2 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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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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