This blog post by Uncle Bob at Objectmentor got me thinking about how Visual Studio automated Testing can help in your Test Driven Development effort.  First off, let me say that I fervently agree with Uncle Bob that TDD cannot be replaced by automatically generating tests.  The intent of Test Driven Development is for your tests ...

Johana Rothman has a great article in stickyminds titled What Project Managers Need To Know About Testing.  Her main point is to make testing an integral part of your project plan.  I would argue that if you are using an agile methodology testing is baked into the project.  XP and Scrum assume that you have to pass acceptance tests ...

I noticed this on the TFS Version Control Site, and thought this might be interesting for those using Team Foundation Server.  For our group sometimes there are some issues with the Resolution of conflicts when checking in.  The proposed interface looks good to me.  Love to hear other feedback!

A little while ago, Scotts Guthrie and Hanselman presented on MVC in ASP.NET (and Dynamic Languages) at the oddly named ALT.NET conference in Texas.  I'm with ScottH that ''Alt'' is a pretty silly name and something like Agile or Pragmatic would be a much better descriptor.  Alternative is not terribly descriptive since anything that ...

I found out that I should be speaking at the DevConnections show this fall.  The show is being held in Las Vegas again, November 5–8th.  I apologize to anybody that had hoped to see me present last month in Orlando at the spring show – I was unfortunately out of the country due to circumstances beyond my control (but which ...

I wanted to follow up on my last entry.  One thing I didn't mention in my last post is how the TDD is accomplished.  I believe you can use both Unit Testing and Automated Customer Acceptance tests as in standard projects, in project with MOSS.  For Automated Customer Acceptance Tests, you could use something like Fitnesse.  ...

Andrew McConnells recent  blog entry on "Real SDL & TDD for SharePoint".  His call for community leaders to contribut to this discussion.  While I'm not necessarily a MOSS community leader, I could be considered a leader in the ASP. NET field (I'm a Microsoft MVP among other things).  ...

As part of my automated build and test process, I wanted to be able to confirm that my third party components were the proper version and, more importantly, that they were fully licensed.  For some components, I can create a new instance of the control or component and test its IsLicensed property.  For others, the assembly itself is ...

Plasma is an ASP.NET in-memory web server emulator that can be used for ASP.NET unit testing or automation.  Its initial codebase was written by Microsoft and its current incarnation is a community project licensed under the Microsoft Permissive License.  I’ve been working on the project with several others and have just put the ...

I'd like to get continuous integration (CI) working for my TFS server here at the office as my next step.  A little googling led to Khushboo's post on doing just this with the RC bits that I'm using at the moment.  The instructions were pretty simple to follow and with minimal headache (aside from the need to install VS on the build box ...