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Unit testing SharePoint

Francis has an article on Unit Testing SharePoint 2007 Applications He also did a brownbag talk on this yesterday, which was very interesting and brought up a few big challenges and ways to work around them. Enjoy

Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Actually Adding Unity

This is the fifth post in a series. The other post include: Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Intro . Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Adding an ICompositionContainer Converting the Composite Web Application

Smart Client Software Factory – April 2008 Release is available on MSDN

The April 2008 release of the Smart Client Software Factory is now available at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480482.aspx . This is a port of the last release (May 2007, if I recall correctly) to VS2008. No new features were added. A few

Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Ummmm...Oooops.

This is the forth post in a series. The other post include Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Intro . Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Adding an ICompositionContainer Converting the Composite Web Application

Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Clean Up ICompositionContainer

This is the third post in a series. The other post include Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Intro . Converting the Composite Web Application Block to Unity - Adding an ICompositionContainer If you want background, go read the

Unity Shipped

I am a little late to the party, but Unity shipped last week. Here are a few other posts about it: Grigori: Unity DI container 1.0 shipped! Chris: Unity 1.0 is released! I have used Unity in an internal project here at p&p, as well as a proof of concept

Data-mining for Code Quality Metrics

I spent two weeks between full time projects (still working on the 2 part time projects I am on) looking back at the build logs from the past 6 months (or so) trying to figure out what metrics we have, what we should track going forward, and what goals

Web Client Software Factory February 2008 Ships!

I know that folks have been reading about the Web Client Software Factory on Blaine's blog and on Glenn's blog. Blaine posted about what we planned to include, back in December with Next version of Web Client Software Factory (WCSF) . Glenn had the post

Unit testing is evolving

Jim Newkirk (of nUnit fame and one of the Microsoft folks behind www.CodePlex.com ) has been blogging about unit testing in forever ( most recently: Why you should not use Setup and Teardown in NUnit ). Now, Jim and Brad Wilson are putting action to his

Using the Testable Object Pattern

Wow. Five posts on unit testing and/or EDD in a row... this has got to be a record. Brad has a great post on the Testable Object Pattern . I've used this pattern on my own code without realizing it, as I also don't like "magic" setup and tear down methods

Design as If Testing Matters

To continue with the string of unit testing and Example Driven Design posts, here is another one: Gordon Weakliem has a post about designing APIs with testing in mind , which links to a James Robertson post on API Design as if Unit Testing Mattered .

Unit Testing Rules

One of the internal Microsoft discussion lists on unit testing and EDD (TDD) had a thread where a person new to unit testing asked a couple of really good questions. In response, someone posted a link to an intersting post by Michael Feathers on A Set

Unit Testing will be in Visual Studio Pro

It was publically announced today on Naysawn Naderi's blog that Unit Testing will be in the Pro SKU of the next version of Visual Studio . This is fantastic news that I am very excited to share.

Creating a List of Examples (a.k.a. a Test List)

Brian has a great post on how to get an EDD (Example Driven Design) coding session started with a list of examples . Of course, Brian uses the terms "TDD" and "Creating a Test List", but the idea is the same. [Author's Note: Because TDD (Test Driven Design)

Announcing: Web Client Software Factory Webcast

Through a few, lucky quirks of fate, Blaine Wastell and I get to do an MSDN webcast about the Web Client Software Factory on Wednesday, March 21 at 10:00AM PST. I'm looking forward to it. If you are interested in an overview of the factory, a few demos,
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