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referencing gac assemblies will result to broken build

i was creating this excel workbook reader module so i referenced the excel com interop assembly which resulted in a failing build in our build server minutes after i commit. the problem is because the said assembly is in my machine's global assembly cache...

Published 07-28-2006 1:15 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, agile, visual studio, continuous integration

safe commit with continuous integration

whenever i have a major change in our projects (e.g. add, remove, rename files), i always try to check if i've broken something by running a nant build locally. everybody here is monitoring our build server and it is a bad impression to break something...

Published 07-19-2006 10:33 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, agile, version control, continuous integration

setting up data for persistence tests

i find writing persistence tests for business objects to be tiresome. imagine setting up all the data that a current business object needs, including all the references needed by the test business objects to be saved. initially, the tests assumes a default...

Published 07-12-2006 3:55 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, agile, tdd

error code 1 returned by nunit.console

i am having this problem with nunit.console ran by nant. i have recently segrated our tests to have the persistence tests to be on a separate project. all is well, i was able to attach another task for the nant build for the added test project and i have...

Published 06-16-2006 3:55 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, agile, tdd

embracing interfaces

For the past years of my career as a .NET developer, i can hardly remember that i used interfaces as parameters or return types from my business objects. DAL interfaces are out of this context since you want your DAL methods to be generic for whatever...

Published 06-01-2006 6:22 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, techie, agile, interface, tdd

Unit testing CSLA business objects

Our current project is using CSLA 1.1 for the business object framework and NHibernate for persistence. I don't know if this is a good combination but personally, I'd rather go for stored procedures since using NHibernate for a small application such...

Published 06-01-2006 1:04 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, CSLA, agile, tdd

struggling with unit testing

we were through with the first iteration of our project and all i can say was it was a mess. although we were able to include much of the functionality for the one-month iteration, the tests took minutes to run since they are talking to external systems...

Published 05-27-2006 1:56 AM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, agile, tdd

Visual Sourcesafe vs SVN, AnkhSVN, TortoiseSVN

I have worked with used Microsoft Visual Sourcesafe and now in my current company, we are using the SVN-Tortoise-Ankh combo. One thing i noticed though is that teammates really have to communicate. Although we are just two in the team, in order to prevent...

Published 05-26-2006 2:19 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, agile, version control, subversion

tedious tdd

i've been reading a number of samples of tdd including the bookmarkcollection sample of james newkirk in his blog here ( http://blogs.msdn.com/jamesnewkirk/archive/category/5458.aspx ). some samples i've read tests for the value of the property after...

Published 03-08-2006 11:39 PM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, agile, tdd

test driven development

i have long wanted to do test-driven development and currently i've been reading a number of articles about it (before implementing it of course). i've just read the Test-Driven Development in .NET article of Peter Provost in CodeProject and what struck...

Published 02-09-2006 3:41 AM by jokiz

Filed under: .NET, agile, tdd

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referencing gac assemblies will result to broken build

safe commit with continuous integration

setting up data for persistence tests

error code 1 returned by nunit.console

embracing interfaces

Unit testing CSLA business objects

struggling with unit testing

Visual Sourcesafe vs SVN, AnkhSVN, TortoiseSVN

tedious tdd

test driven development