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Bugs, defects and feedback

In my last post , I talked about how we like to track bugs, with just pieces of paper. At lot of the responses were interesting, but I think some came back to the issue of “what is a bug?” Some felt that bugs needed to live in a more durable...

Published Wed, Sep 30 2009 1:58 PM by bogardj

Filed under: Agile
My favorite bug-tracking system

I’m of the opinion that a process must demonstrate the need for software, before software is put in place to manage that process. Bug tracking is a process, but often we jump straight to a software solution for managing/tracking bugs before considering...

Published Tue, Sep 29 2009 1:57 PM by bogardj

Filed under: Agile
Thanks Houston TechFest!

This past weekend I gave a talk on one of my favorite topics – UI testing. In it, I focused almost exclusively on techniques for authoring maintainable UI tests, and how design for testability extends to views, models and controllers in MVC land...

Published Mon, Sep 28 2009 8:41 AM by bogardj

Filed under: ASP.NET MVC
The case for two-way mapping in AutoMapper

I’m getting more and more requests around the area of two-way mapping, meaning you’d do something like: Product –> ProductDTO ProductDTO –> Product Product being an entity, I can’t for the life of me understand why I’d want to dump a DTO straight...

Published Thu, Sep 17 2009 9:33 PM by bogardj

Filed under: AutoMapper
AutoMapper 1.0 RC1 released

It’s been quite a long journey with AutoMapper , with the origins written just over a year ago now. I’ve focused on stability and performance since the 0.3.1 release back in May, and from here to the 1.0 release, I’ll just be doing bug fixes. ...

Published Mon, Sep 14 2009 8:34 PM by bogardj

Filed under: AutoMapper
Wither the Repository

Looking at the different Repository pattern implementations, one thing really surprised me – how far off these implementations are from the original Fowler definition of the Repository. Instead, we see a transformation to the examples in the Evans...

Published Thu, Sep 10 2009 10:05 PM by bogardj

Filed under: Domain-Driven Design
DDD: Repository Implementation Patterns

One of the major structural patterns encountered in DDD (and one of the most argued about) is the Repository pattern . You’ve created a persistent domain model, and now you need to be able to retrieve these objects from an encapsulated store. ...

Published Wed, Sep 02 2009 9:00 PM by bogardj

Filed under: Domain-Driven Design
Partially closed generic types

If you swallow enough of the generic pills, you may run into situations where a not-quite closed and a not-quite open generic type would be nice. It’s in situations where decisions based on types are prevalent, such as in IoC containers. An...

Published Tue, Sep 01 2009 6:23 PM by bogardj

Filed under: C#

September 2009 - Jimmy Bogard

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Bugs, defects and feedback

My favorite bug-tracking system

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The case for two-way mapping in AutoMapper

AutoMapper 1.0 RC1 released

Wither the Repository

DDD: Repository Implementation Patterns

Partially closed generic types