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Inhibiting design tooling and sex education

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:58:19 GMT

during a reply to a thread about design for testability , Pat Maddox wrote something interesting about how the inherent testability in Ruby still does not make up for the lack of design skills: “ Too often I'm finding in the Ruby community we've...(read more)

Working on a new product

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:59:44 GMT

I’ve been heads down in the past few weeks working on a new product. a public alpha\beta will be out end of this month. It is in the field of unit testing. Can you guess what it is? hints : There is parsing involved IWpfTextView My book Read More......(read more)

TDD master class – Vienna Feb 15-19

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:20:55 GMT

I will be in Vienna again in two weeks , from Feb 15-19 ,doing my TDD master class . There are two seats left – and I’d love to see you there! here’s what other people who attended had to say about this class . You can register here. Read More......(read more)

18 Questions to ask yourself when choosing continuous integration and build automation tools

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:57:02 GMT

In a previous post I explained the different between Continuous Integration tools and Build automation tools , but there’s also lots of be said for HOW to pick a specific CI or BA tool. What do I look for in a CI tool? first and foremost – how intuitive...(read more)

January at Israel .net user group: Unit Testing!

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:27:00 GMT

The January meeting of the Israel Dot Net Developers User Group will be held on Wednesday January 20, 2010. This meeting will focus on real-real issues and practices in developing unit tests, with a variety of tools. Our speakers...(read more)

The difference between continuous Integration tools and automated build tools

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:08:20 GMT

Lots of people have a common misunderstanding of the (subtle) differences between the various tooling regarding continuous integration and build automateion. Here’s the gist of it: Build automation: Build automation tools are tools you use to automate...(read more)

Unit Testing Biztalk : Two possible frameworks

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:51:55 GMT

BizTalk is notoriously hard to test. But I just came a cross a couple of interesting solutions to do unit testing for biztalk related logic and orchestration. BizMock : “BizMock is a framework for testing BizTalk solutions, using a Domain Driven Design...(read more)

Poll: Do you use NUnit’s fluent API?

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:39:02 GMT

if you use NUnit, did you know it has a fluent API option? Do you use it? you can write the following: Assert.That( someString, Is.Not.Null .And.Not.Empty .And...(read more)

How SilverUnit can help you be famous

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:29:11 GMT

Want to be famous? If you’ve used SilverUnit to successfully help you test your silverlight code, I might be able to help. I’m working on a conference talk showing SilverUnit and the idea of system wide isolation, and I want to also mention people who...(read more)

TDD: 4 questions that will help you create the simplest thing that could possibly work

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:36:08 GMT

Today in class I got to understand, for the first time, what I define as “the simplest thing that could possibly work” when doing TDD. Many people struggle with the idea of simplicity. the idea of doing things to the point of “micro-increments” to the...(read more)

Oslo TDD Course – First day canceled

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:57:19 GMT

I’m so sorry to announce this. Due to various flight delays coming in to Oslo from Tel aviv, I am stuck in munich, only coming into Oslo tomorrow afternoon. That means that if you are part of my TDD course starting tomorrow, tomorrow’s day is canceled...(read more)

RTM ready tests

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:54:05 GMT

a friend came up with a good way to describe good tests the way I see them (in my book I describe good unit tests as ones that are readable, maintainable and trust-worthy at the same time). He just called them RTM: Readable, Trust-worthy, Maintainable...(read more)

Brown, Green, Refactor

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:50:56 GMT

Having seen enough crappy unit tests to last me a lifetime, I think there should be a parallel to the old “ red-green-refactor ” (from TDD) – it’s evil twin brother should be “ Brown-Green-Refactor ” wherin you’d do a crappy test first, then make it pass...(read more)

Software Apprenticeship

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:12:29 GMT

Wow, maybe indeed it is time for a book about apprenticeship in software. I think the software craftsmanship initiative is long overdue, but it won’t be complete without the idea of proper leadership , not just apprenticeship. speaking of books, there...(read more)

Comments on Corey Haines’ String Calculator TDD Kata Implementation

ISerializable - Roy Osherove's Blog : Agile — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:26:35 GMT

Corey Haines recreated my TDD Kata on his KataCasts blog. ( click here to learn more about TDD katas ) Since Corey is an experienced TDD practitioner I was honored that he’d given it a go, and was eager to see the video. Later, corey asks for my...(read more)