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Do you have an Action Plan to Tackle your Technical Debt?

As a general rule all software development teams will create technical debt during the construction of their product. Creating this debt is in no way an indicator that the team is bad or not talented, but rather is an indicator that they understand...

Published 04-09-2010 6:20 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Agile, Craftsmanship

Simple Kick Start Example using MEF (Preview 8)

If your application needs extension points what do you do? Building a plugin based system is not cutting edge, it is not rocket science. However, it does take a little effort and can be a bit painful depending on your implementation. The guys...

Published 10-27-2009 5:34 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Agile, MEF

Unit Tests to the rescue

Today started off in a bad, bad way. Because of some issues I had earlier in the week with my source control repository (SCR) I was doing a ton of work offline. Today I was able to regain access to my SCR I decided to do a full get. I was fully expecting...

Published 10-02-2008 9:44 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Agile, Humor

Thoughts on Testing an API

Over the past few weeks I have worked on a few products for my client that will be used as API's. These API's will be used by either their own (external) clients or other internal departments. Working on these projects made me think...

Published 04-14-2008 7:32 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Agile, .Net, TDD

App.Config issues when running NUnit via Resharper

***** Update ***** This issue is directly related to a #R 4 EAP issue. I was using build 755 and this was an issue. As of build 762, this is no longer an issue. ******************** Today I encountered some odd behavior when trying to run some tests against...

Published 03-25-2008 8:43 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Agile, TDD

Sometimes I just feel dirty doing this job.....

Many times during our development duties we have to read through code segments to figure out the desired intent of a feature. Today I was doing just this. There is a new feature that I need to implement and to do so, I needed to walk through...

Published 01-08-2008 12:14 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Agile

Backing in Unit Tests into an existing project

Recently I was asked about backing in unit tests into an existing project. In particular I was asked A) was possible and B) is it worth it. In short my answers to both these are Yes and Yes. However, backing in unit tests is not without its challenges...

Published 10-09-2007 7:35 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Agile, Methodology, TDD, Opinion

Why I believe IN and WRITE unit tests

In my last post I think I struck a cord with some people in my post 'Unit tests taking too much time'. My intent was NOT to sound like an elitist Agilist or any else of that nature. My intent was simply to put a post out there about the misperception...

Published 10-01-2007 7:27 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Agile, Methodology, TDD, Opinion, Featured

Using RhinoMocks with StructureMap to mock expected calls

What do you do when you are writing a test for a piece of code that calls out to an ‘out of your control’ service such as a web service or email server? If you are like most of us, you simply allow your test to make the call and ‘hope’ that the service...

Published 07-24-2007 9:32 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Agile, .Net, StructureMap, Rhino Mocks

StructureMap Tip: Using Concrete classes as a PluginFamily

Have ever wanted to use a concrete class as both the the PluginFamily and Plugable (information on StructureMap's attributes here ) type in StructureMap ? I know I have, just today in fact (not the first time, but thought I would post about it this time...

Published 07-23-2007 5:43 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Development Tools, Agile, .Net, TDD, StructureMap

What I'm Learning

This post is in response to Sam Gentile's post over at code better I'm Learning Rhino Mocks NHibernate StructureMap Policy Injection Blocks Log4Ne t (yea I know, what took so long. Answer, last few apps use the Logging App Block) MonoRail (about to start...

Published 06-08-2007 5:18 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Development Tools, Agile, TDD, StructureMap, NHibernate

Learning to use Mocks and the power they provide

Up until a few months ago I had never even attempted to use mocks ( NMock , RhinoMock , etc). Every time I would read about Mocking I thought to myself, this is kinda cool, but seems to be a waste of energy. At the time I saw Mocks as only a way to create...

Published 05-23-2007 6:54 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Agile, Methodology, TDD

Handling Events in Unit Tests with anonymous delegates

Recently a co-worker of mine (Lou, smart guy… (Lou, your shameless plug)) needed to test a UI control that raised an event upon certain conditions. In order to handle this event he needed to have some way to trap that it was raised. The solution he came...

Published 04-23-2007 12:26 PM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Agile, TDD

Options Wanted: How do I handle my Mocks

I am looking for feedback from the group. I am pretty new to using mocks for my unit tests and I am not sure what the standard approach in the community for usage of mocks in regards to how/where they are stored in your test application. After refactoring...

Published 04-17-2007 7:35 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Agile, Methodology, TDD, NMock

InternalsVisibleTo: Testing internal methods in .Net 2.0

Ok, so maybe I am the last person on the planet to learn about this new attribute, but oh well. Last week a co-worker of mine came across this attribute when doing some research and both of us just kinda looked at each other and smiled. See, for a long...

Published 04-09-2007 6:33 AM by Derik Whittaker

Filed under: Development, Agile, .Net

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