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Video of the Continuous Integration workshop

Early this week we ( Jeffrey Palermo and I ) gave a Continuous Integration Workshop in Austin. We were able to record the workshop and our company Headspring Systems made the recordings available on their website. There is just under 3 hours...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2009 8:03 PM by erichexter

Filed under: agile, subversion, testing, CC.Net, continous integration, Tools, continous improvement, Unittests

Free Continuous Integration Workshop in Austin Tuesday Sept 15th 1pm-5pm

I am doing a Continuous Integration Workshop next Tuesday. The admission is free and will be held at the Microsoft Office. To register go here: http://www.headspringsystems.com/services/agile-training/continuous-integration/ ...

Published Thu, Sep 09 2009 5:32 PM by erichexter

Filed under: agile, testing, .Net, CC.Net, continous integration, Tools, continous improvement

Breaking changes in Ncover 3.0 integration with Cruise Control .Net

There were some changes to the nCover xml reports for code coverage which will break your existing integration with cruise control .net . Specifically if you use the Statistics feature of Cruise Control which is one of the best features it provides...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2009 4:31 PM by erichexter

Filed under: agile, testing, .Net, CC.Net, Tools, OSS

Updated TDD Productivity Plug-in for Resharper

I first want to thank JetBrains for being pretty awesome. I have complained a lot about how they are constantly chaining their APIs to Resharper and as a result it makes keeping plugins very hard to maintain but they went way out of their way to help...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2009 11:41 PM by erichexter

Filed under: c#, agile, testing, Tools, Open Source Software, Unittests, Resharper, TDD

Performance differences in the ASP.Net MVC View Engine when using two View Engines versus a single Composite View Engine.

While I was testing out my VirtualPathProvider implementation in the Opinionated Input Builders series I ran across an interesting performance difference which was quite surprising. In fact even after looking at the source code to the MVC...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2009 10:01 PM by erichexter

Filed under: c#, mvc, testing, Asp.Net, .Net, x64, IIS, Asp.Net MVC

Making a Unit Test Framework agnostic Assertion in C#

At the beginning of the year I got some feedback that the assertions in the MvcContrib.TestHelper library were great and very useful but the problem with them is that we relyed on the NUnit assertions. This was a problem for some users as...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2009 1:49 PM by erichexter

Filed under: c#, mvccontrib, testing, .Net, Tools, altnetseattle, Unittests

Opinionated Input Builders - Part 7 More on Performance / Take 2.

Part 1 – Overview Part 2 – the Labe l Part 3 – the Source Code Part 4 – the Partial View Part 5 – the Required Field Indicator Part 6 – the Performance Part 7 – the Performance Take 2 After doing what all good developers should do on the weekend...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2009 3:15 PM by erichexter

Filed under: c#, mvc, mvccontrib, testing, Asp.Net, .Net, Asp.Net MVC, continous improvement, OSS, Open Source Software, CoC

Trying to extend the Asp.Net MVC (T4) item templates to create multiple files.

One of the features I was really excited about for the MVC RC was the template/Model based scaffolding support in the Add View and Add Controller menu options inside of visual studio. I think that they have made a great first version effort that will...

Published Thu, Feb 02 2009 9:00 AM by erichexter

Filed under: c#, agile, mvc, testing, .Net, Tools, Asp.Net MVC

My Current .Net Application and Tools Stack

For what it is worth I thought I would share what my current application stack for Enterprise Web Application / Line of Business Applications. When these tools are used together they allow me to develop in a frictionless way. I am able to...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2009 1:38 PM by erichexter

Filed under: testing, Asp.Net, .Net, continous integration, Tools

Running your build/source code from a ram disk.

As a test I wanted to run a build from a drive in ram rather than on a physical disk drive using the old Dos style Ram disk. For a trivial build that includes compilation, Asp.net compilation, database updates, unit test, and integration tests...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 1:18 PM by erichexter

Filed under: c#, testing, .Net

Silverlight Beta 2 Released and what that means for the Testing Framework.

ok.. So Silverlight Beta 2 was released on and it has some great new features. But what is the story about testing...? 1 Jeff Willcox blogged about a small change you will need to make in order to use the existing testing framework. It is essentially...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2008 4:49 PM by erichexter

Filed under: c#, testing, silverlight

Silverlight Testing - Part 2 - Making the test easier understand.

Now that we have a working test that can make the proper assertions, the next step is to make the test easier to understand. First, here is the existing test. The test is loaded with infrastructure code that helps execute the asynchronous calls with the...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2008 1:59 PM by erichexter

Filed under: testing, silverlight

Silverlight Testing - Part 1 - Testing the untested.

The Silverlight testing framework was recently released and shows some great potential for being a first class application platform. For more information about the test framework see this post from Jeff Wilcox . To start off I choose to use a code sample...

Published Sun, Apr 04 2008 11:49 PM by erichexter

Filed under: c#, testing, silverlight

Silverlight Testing framework bug - FrameworkElements are not visible on the TestSurface

Technorati Tags: Silverlight , Unit Testing , Test Framework Working with the Silverlight testing framework the last three weeks has been interesting. I ran into a crazy intermittent bug which drove me made for about 2 hours. The usercontrol that I was...

Published Sun, Apr 04 2008 12:24 AM by erichexter