The latest issue of CIO Magazine has a featured article on Getting Clueful: 7 Things CIOs Should Know About Agile Development.  It includes quotes from a bunch of developers, including some names you'll surely recognize if you follow Agile discussions at all, like Scott Ambler.  In addition to gurus like Scott, there's also yours truly ...

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 ...

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.  ...

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 ...

Here’s an article on how you can complement some of your testing methods using Excel directly for automated tests: http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/11/TestRun/default.aspx  After going through some training on using among other techniques, fitnesse, for automated acceptance tests, I had some ...

Got back home last night from DevConnections in Las Vegas.  It was a very good show this year in terms of content, products being launched, and numbers of attendees and exhibitors.  I think I had more people in my sessions than usual, too, and they all went well (i.e. the demos worked, nobody threw tomatoes at me). The keynote on Monday ...

In order to help turn TestDriven.NET from a hobby into somethig that pays the bills, Jamie has released a Professional and Enterprise version of TestDriven.net. There's still a free version, non-crippled and non-nag, but he asks if you regularly use TestDriven.NET in one of the licensing scenarios, please buy a license. Full story at ...