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, however, it is not existing in the build server...

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 and hear bart simpson screaming. and the painful...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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 the tedious conflict resolutions, we needed to...

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...

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...