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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 set of data from our test database and when...
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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 been having successful builds for a week now....
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i have been doing tdd and reading agile developer blogs helps a lot. Jay Fields have blogged about his observations in doing TDD and i can see my experience is slowly catching up with his. Still a lot to learn though. http://jayfields.blogspot.com/2006/06/some-test-driven-development.html http://jayfields...
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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 datasource. For those two years, I am really a fan...
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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 as ours is an overkill (not to mention the tweaking...
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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 like database and active directory. for the past...
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Recently, I gave a talk on agile development and VSTS. I explored the process guidance integration found in VSTS within the context of Agile development, specifically Scrum. This feature alone makes it worth adopting team system. I installed the Conchango scrum plug-in to VSTS for this demo. If I were...
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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 setting it. although i agree that i might add additional...
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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 me was the use of mock objects. One of the biggest...
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I'm currently "trying" Scrum in a green field software development. The operative word is "trying" since this is our first scrum and only our second sprint. I'll be posting here our adventures in Scrum and if it has helped us "control chaos".