March 2009 - Posts

Geeky T-Shirt ideas by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

Here are a couple of Conference T-Shirt ideas I had that I wanted to make: “Legalize unit testing” “I broke the build” “I Mock You” “I’m Mocking this” “I do B(eer)D(riven)D(evelopment)” “I fail first” “I fail early and often” “I like to reflect on private...
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Test Review #3 – Unity by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

Watch previous videos: Test Review #1 – NerdDinner Test Review #2 – ASP.NET MVC     In this video I go over the tests for Microsoft Unity Application Block. Overall the quality of the tests in Unity is pretty good! I could certainly recommend...

Test Review #2 – ASP.NET MVC Unit Tests by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

See other reviews: Review #1: NerdDinner Here’s the second video review of Unit Tests. This is another one written by Microsoft – ASP.NET MVC ( source ). First, it’s important to state how surprised I was by the high quality of the tests in MVC. The tests...

Test Review #1 - NerdDinner by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

I’ve decided to start doing some test reviews of tests that I see in the wild. I figured it’s the best way to show people what I mean when I say they do not have readable, maintainable or trustworthy tests. The first episode is the review of the tests...

ALT.NET Israel – Meeting II 2d and 3rd of April by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

I’ll just repost this in Hebrew: בשעה טובה ומוצלחת אני שמח לבשר על כנס alt.net israel השני מיקום הכנס : כמו בפעם שעברה, יתקיים הכנס בבית קבוצת סלע בבני ברק, ליד קניון אילון. תודה לאנשי קבוצת סלע על ההיענות לאירוח. פרטים על סלע כאן: http://www.sela.co...

API design values and decision matrix by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

We’ve come to a nice way of deciding upon features in the Isolator API. This is what happens when your end product is an API for programmers. First, we realized that we must argue about it . For each type of new feature in the isolator API, we put up...

Art of unit Testing goes to print in April by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

The book of never ending production is now actually near the end. the projected print date of “Art Of Unit Testing” is now April 30 and I’m happy to see the Amazon page for the book already has one review of the early access version (though he totally...

What Isolation\Mocking and unit testing framework are you using? by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

It’s time to re-examine where things stand in our little niche. This should be interesting, if enough people answer – so please answer (you need flash).   Read More...

We need a new slogan by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

We’ve been debating this one internally for two weeks now. So I voted that we take this out to the community. Hopefully, you won’t make me look like an Idiot to my boss for suggesting it.. We need your help finding a new slogan for Typemock . You could...
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True Learning – not comfortable, easy or safe by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

People seem to have a problem with me “changing lanes”. But that’s the way I learn things. If I totally disagree with something, I accept the fact that I may be doing so because of fear and misunderstanding. The best way to get rid of FUD is to give something...
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Alt.Heros – Shanselman, benscheirman by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

In case you didn’t realize this, whoever Scott Hanselman’s manager is = you should give Scott a raise. He just made ALT.NET fun for people 6000 miles away using Kyte.com, a laptop and a buggy camera. Thanks for being an ALT.HERO Scott. And thanks Ben...
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What are YOU going to do about it? by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

At one of the jobs I was working at years back, I was a pretty successful developer. it was a startup and I was having fun. Near the end of its life though, things started falling apart and everyone had to contribute to the effort, including doing things...
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Awsome idea: TeamCity.CodeBetter.com by ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile

The CodeBetter.com guys stepped up and created TeamCity.CodeBetter.com. open source Continuous Integration hosting using TeamCity (which we use internally). Way to go! Read More...
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