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• Running fitness.Net tests in unit test – some tips

  I posted a while ago on wiring in Fitness.Net into a unit test framework using HTML files to hold the tests . Well I have been using the technique for some workflow acceptance testing and hit a couple of gotta’s that are easy to forget: Make sure the... Posted Oct 04 2008, 10:39 PM by Richard with | with no comments Filed under: Testing

• Testing Driven Development for Workflow Foundation

  As we move into the SOA world workflows will become more common and so the need to test them will increase. If we take the most simplistic view these are a sets if statements and loops so should be amenable to automated testing and TDD. However you have... Posted Oct 03 2008, 07:28 PM by Richard with | with no comments Filed under: Testing, WF

• Rebuild of GUITester

  I have eventually got round to rebuilding my GUITester on Codeplex for VS2008. I must get round to looking to see if a similar declarative test markup system has any mileage for XAML. Something was talking about at Alt.net in the spring - how time flies... Posted Sep 20 2008, 02:39 PM by Richard with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Testing, GUITester

• Running Fitnesse.NET tests using MSTest

  I have been looking at Fitnesse.NET for a while; if you have not come across this testing tool I cannot recommend Gojko Adzic book highly enough; an excellent real world introduction to Fitnesse.NET. For me, the problem with Fitnesse is that it's... Posted Jul 18 2008, 11:00 PM by Richard with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Testing, VSTS

• Interesting post on testing

  Interesting post from Ben Hall on the role of the tester, something I have posted on in the past . As Ben asks what are other people views? Posted Jun 09 2008, 09:27 PM by Richard with | with no comments Filed under: Testing

• A couple of speaking engagements

  I will be speaking at the Irish Microsoft Technology Conference in early April on the Business Intelligence features in SQL 2008. I also just found out my Continuous Integration session at Developer Day Scotland has been successful in the vote, thanks... Posted Mar 12 2008, 09:20 AM by Richard with | with no comments Filed under: Testing, Events, SQL, Community

• CruiseControl & MSTest from Visual Studio 2008

  Ages ago I posted on using MSTest and CruiseControl .NET with VS2005. As I am presenting tomorrow to the Yorkshire Extreme Programming Club on CC.Net I thought it a good idea to revisit this subject with VS2008. Well basically nothing has changed, the... Posted Mar 11 2008, 08:38 PM by Richard with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Testing, VSTS, DDD, Extreme Programming Club

• March 2008 meeting of the Yorkshire Extreme Programming Club

  In a change from the usual venue in Leeds, the next meeting of the Extreme Programming club will be at Black Marble's office in Bradford. I will be giving a updated version of my DDD4 presentation on Cruise Control .NET . The fun starts a 7pm on Wednesday... Posted Mar 03 2008, 06:28 PM by Richard with | with no comments Filed under: Testing, VSTS, Events, Extreme Programming Club, Community

• Another declarative programming language to try to test

  At the Alt.NET UK conference there was a good deal of discussion about tactics to test declarative languages such as XAML in WPF applications. Well it seems we have another one coming out of the Oslo project - ' D '. Looks like there is no escape... Posted Feb 07 2008, 09:39 AM by Richard with | with no comments Filed under: Testing, BizTalk, altnetuk

• Oh to be a tester....

  Whilst at the Alt.net conference it was pointed out that I have a different view of the role of a tester in a software development team to many other people. It seems a tester, to many people, is viewed as a person who follows manual test scripts and... Posted Feb 03 2008, 09:34 PM by Richard with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Testing, Agile, altnetuk

• Microsoft SOA Conference - day 2

  I have focused on the the more developer end of SOA today. In the morning excellent sessions by Aaron Skonnard and Matt Milner on using WCF in BizTalk and best WF practices respectively, both provided an interesting set of gotta's to look out for... Posted Nov 01 2007, 02:51 AM by Richard with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Testing, SOA

• GUITester and CodePlex

  Due to popular demand, well one person, I have uploaded my GUITester system I presented about at DDD3 to CodePlex. It can be found at http://www.codeplex.com/guitester . If you are interested in moving the project forward let me know. Posted Sep 24 2007, 02:30 PM by Richard with | with no comments Filed under: Testing, GUITester

• SQLBits

  I have just heard my proposed session for the SQLBits conference has been accepted. I will be talking on Unit Testing in SQL Server my proposal was: Test driven development is one of the current hot topics in software development, but how far can these... Posted Sep 14 2007, 12:55 PM by Richard with | with no comments Filed under: Testing, Events, DDD, SQL

• Can't debug into a MOSS Webpart

  I am doing some work at present where I need to debug into webparts hosted in a MOSS 2007 server. Never an easy set of debugging to get right. To try to ease the process I wrote a WinForm test application that just calls the webpart method with test parameters... Posted Aug 24 2007, 01:10 PM by Richard with | with no comments Filed under: Technical Tips, Testing

• Good pointer to DNR TV from Colin @ DDD5

  I have just watched the Dot Net Rocks TV Show that Colin Mackay recommended during his DDD5 session on Mock Objects (and posted about in his blog ). I cannot agree more that it is great practical intro to using the Model/View/Presenter pattern, easy to... Posted Jul 02 2007, 11:42 AM by Richard with | with no comments Filed under: Testing, DDD