I’ve roped myself into giving a talk on mocking and frameworks, going to cover Rhino.Mocks, Typemock and touch on Moq, but I thought I’d put a call out for anyone who has any war stories around mocking that I can work in. good or bad, I don’t want to just present a one-sided argument. so [...]
war stories
NSpecify => RSpec… well closer anyway
So as I’ve been doing some Ruby+Rails work recently, I’ve become very enamoured of Rspec, it’s ability to turn plain text tests into runable tests is awesome.
I love that I can run this as an automated test:
Story: News Page
As a visitor
I Want to go to the news site
So that I can keep up with all [...]
kicking and screaming
Sometimes change can be very difficult, most peoples instinct is to stay with the status quo and not disrupt the flow, however there are imperative changes that must happen on any software teams and fighting them is like taking a proverbial piss in the wind.
Right now I’m trying to help people around me facilitate change, [...]
NSpecify Nunit add-in fix for InitializeFunctionality methods
Well I still exist!
Recently I’ve been moving more and more into understanding how a specification test should be written using NSpecify a really nice framework for running tests.
Also I’ve been seriously involved in getting the teams build process up and running in a much more meaningful form, as such I’ve noticed a bug in the [...]
Testing out marsedit
I’m trying to find a nice weblog editor for the mac and MarsEdit seems to be the final one to test after Ecto fails to post to subtext properly. I’ll add an image too:
Yep that’s me trying to avoid the camera at the wellington agile bar camp last week
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Settling on a rhythm
Well I know, I missed a post on Friday, I’m sure someone was holding out for it but it never came.
Truth is I realised that a post a day is probably unrealistic and instead I’m just going to aim for at least a post a week, hopefully more.
However I still have to find things to [...]
Mock-ist or Classic-ist
I’ve recently been working on a project trying to use xUnit.net and I’m really pleasantly surprised by one thing…. the change in vocabulary. No longer do we have tests we have facts. It may seem to some that this change means very little (Apart from making it really hard to swap out xUnit.net and put [...]
The Middle Ground
In every profession there is the middle ground and I’ve yet to work out an example of where the middle ground is a good thing.
Politics is possibly the best example of where the middle ground flourishes. In order to appeal to the most voters possible, political parties try and “capture the [...]
Goals
Throughout my adult and formative years I have set myself a number of goals as I’ve progressed. As human beings goals can be incredibly powerful to our psyche whether long term goals such as career prospects or short term such as getting home at night they play a powerful role in our life.
As software developers [...]
getting out of the comfort zone
December is upon us and I’ve decided to actively try and increase the amount of posts I make to my blog, trying to pick up interesting and diverse topics and actively writing 1 article every Monday to Friday, I’m not sure how well I’ll stick to it but it’s worth a try.
I’ve recently realised it’s [...]