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xUnit Test Patterns and evolving TDD and test automation

Cross-posted from my main Code Better blog We went over 2,000 unit tests this past week during Iteration 72 on our Agile project . Of course, over the course of the last 18-24 months we have removed some tests, and in many cases, refactored the existing tests many times. We also have been learning a...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 06-11-2007
New and Notable 152

Smart Clients/Orcas I am extremely pleased to see the .NET Framework (and Microsoft) finally gain the offline sync services that I have been talking about for quite a few years in my work at Groove and Adesso . You will be able to do synchronization from WinForms and WPF apps that you could do from Groove...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 03-26-2007
New and Notable 151

Thank God, its Friday. Even after a full 32 ounces of strong Starbucks coffee, I still fell asleep on the train on the way in. Entity Framework/OR/M/LINQ The excellent Entity Framework discussions continue with Scott Bellware's fine Entity Framework Challenges Architecture One of my core principles...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 03-23-2007
New and Notable 150!!

This is it, the big 150! The first New and Notable was on May 19, 2003 , (my first post was March 29, 2002 ) and I paid homage to the master, "I have always admired Mike's ability to look at the world out there and put it all into one great post, The Daily Grind . While I can't pretend to...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 03-22-2007
New and Notable 149

Yup, I'm still stuck in Seattle and I still feel like crap. Tomas just went off to the airport and I feel like the last MVP left in Seattle. Just want to get out of here and home but can't do that until tomorrow night. Lots of stuff stored up Entity Framework/ADO.NET 3/ORM/ASP.NET/MonoRail I...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 03-18-2007
New and Notable 148

Still real tired from my Oklahoma trip , partying with Raymond sure is exhausting-). Agile/Development Tools On my short list for some time now, is to switch from NUnit to the definitely superior MbUnit. My friend Andrew has done some great work with this tool and he has a new release out with the beta...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 03-07-2007
Being an Agile Architect

I told Steve today that I had been really agonizing over this post and had started it many times but wasn't sure I could word it in ways that I could express what I would like people to understand and take from this post. So here goes and maybe it will make some sense-). I asked a rhetorical question...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 09-06-2006
By God Its Out!

This is a big day. After being associated with Indigo for the better part of four+ years now, I am ecstatic that the whole Microsoft .NET Framework 3 RC has reached RC today!! I spoke to my friends Richard Turner and Craig McLuckie just the other day as we did a progress check on our project and WCF's...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 09-01-2006
How to use the Service BAT, Exception Handling and Logging Blocks with WCF and CAB

So, in the last post , I talked about our problems identified during the CTP. This second part is an instructive solution-oriented post about what we did to fix things. So, as I went off on vacation for a week, I pretty much obbessed on the issues during the CTP and proper exception handling! -) Truth...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 08-05-2006
CTP and Diagnosing WCF, CAB and other Exceptions

In the last post , I talked about how we had reached Iteration 33 and gone to CTP with a large International bank. I alluded to some problems. Of course, one of the CTP's main purposes was to find problems and learn from them. We ended up having a variety of problems. There were initial problems...

Posted to Sam Gentile (Weblog) by Sam Gentile on 08-05-2006

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