June 2004 - Posts
I ran across a couple of articles over the weekend that I think are really helpful with regard to this difficult and mildly controversial topic. Roy Osherove ( http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2004/06/19/160141.aspx ) Steve Eichert ( http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/seichert/archive/2004/06/19/17046.aspx
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You say this new unit testing tool in VS Team System is something that you want to use but you have a large number of existing tests in NUnit. For some reason you don’t have a great desire to walk through and change all the attribute names. Well,
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From the .NET Rocks web-site: .NET Rocks interviews John Alexander and Barry Gervin John and Barry talk with us about Test-Driven Development, Unit Testing, and other aspects of Extreme Programming that are being used today. We had given lip service to
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I know there is nothing that I can say that will be viewed objectively, because I am a Microsoft employee and I have been tangentially involved with the VS Team System development team (I am the development lead for the patterns & practices). That
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“Microsoft patterns and practices test team is currently working on developing guidance focusing on testing .NET application blocks. The guide's TOC and two draft chapters have been made available so its possible for others to provide feedback.
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Jason Anderson a Microsoft Program Manager on the Enterprise Development and Test (EDT) team blogs a response to the question: ( http://weblogs.asp.net/jason_anderson/archive/2004/06/04/148252.aspx )
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One of the often requested features of NUnit was the ability to test private member variables and private methods. I resisted because I always felt that if you limited yourself to the public interface that enabled you to freely change the implementation
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I have uploaded code snippets for unit testing in Visual Studio Team System to the Test Driven Development workspace ( http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/tdd ). These snippets inlclude: TestClass TestMethod TestMethod, ExpectedException TestInitialize TestCleanup
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Visual Studio 2005 has a feature that will help me and hopefully you a great deal. See, I do not know how to touch type. However, many people who have seen me type think I am one of the fastest two finger typists around. This is probably not something
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Sorry for the late notice... MSDN Architecture will hold a Live Meeting Webcast on patterns & practices covering Test Driven Development. The Webcast will be held on June 3, 2004, from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM Pacific Time (GMT-8, US & Canada). It
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As usual when you sit down and write your first bit of code in a new language or in this case a new unit testing framework what else would you write other then the tested version of Hello World (thanks to Scott Densmore ). In this case the unit testing
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For a number of months many people have been after to me write a blog. I have resisted because I did not want to be one of the people who started writing a blog with a lot of energy only to see it whither to a few posts a year. However over the past few
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