Explaining the other work we do
Submitted by Karen N. Johnson on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 15:54.I had a technical issue I needed to research for a client. Nothing surprising, I research different bits of information frequently. At the end of my research I realized I wanted to explain what I'd done, I wanted to clarify and present what avenues I had pursued, what information I'd learned, what issues remained and what possible other solutions we might look into. I realized I wanted to share these bits of information with the project team so I set out to write an email.
Attitude of the development team to the product
Submitted by Brian Marick on Sun, 31/01/2010 - 20:40.Back in the old days, most of my Agile consulting was coming into well-performing Agile teams who wanted to talk about improving their testing. So I got to see a lot of seasoned teams. What struck me most, and made me happiest, was their stance toward their product and the product owner. Proud. Enthusiastic. Engaged.Dave [...]
Up in the Air
Submitted by Brian Marick on Sun, 31/01/2010 - 19:36.I saw “Up in the Air” last night. While it’s a well-done movie, albeit entirely predictable, the world it portrays is a lot more disturbing than it seems at first. To explain, I recommend John Holbo’s close reading of David Frum’s Dead Right. Here’s the most relevant part:[Frum writes] “The great, overwhelming fact of a [...]
Pex v0.22.50128.1: Bug fixes, bug fixes, bug fixes
Submitted by Jonathan de Halleux on Sat, 30/01/2010 - 06:48.We just released a new version of Pex and Moles that brings a number of bug fixes and various improvements to the behaviors for SharePoint and Asp.NET.
Improvements
- Interaction with the Source Control provider has been significantly improved for Moles
- Support for Moles of nested types.
- Improved logging in the Host Type
- Improved Behaved collections
- Added Behaved types for mscorlib and System.Web types.
Bug fixes
Using Moles to test DateTime.Now on Channel9
Submitted by Jonathan de Halleux on Sat, 30/01/2010 - 00:19.We did a super-short movie with Nikolai Tillmann on how to use Moles to test code depending on DateTime.Now. Enjoy!
Implementing DependencyProperty with a single attribute (and CciSharp)
Submitted by Jonathan de Halleux on Fri, 29/01/2010 - 18:11.In WPF, one needs to implement the DependencyProperty pattern to make properties bindable. It usually involves a lot of boiler plate code:
- adding a static field that names the depency property,
- adding the instance property to the type (and make sure you follow the naming convention),
- add validation methods and wire them in the dependency constructor
These are a number steps that need to be done again and again if you are building new WPF controls.
Directed Graph ML (DGML) support in QuickGraph
Submitted by Jonathan de Halleux on Thu, 28/01/2010 - 18:09.The new version of Visual Studio 2010 supports a very cool graph viewer (powered by MSAGL) and a simple XML file format (DGML) to load your own graph. I’ve added support in QuickGraph to emit .dgml file from any graph (you will need to build the sources). For example, this snippet display a very simple graph:
Exploratory Testing IS Accountable
Submitted by michael.a.bolton@gmail.com (Michael Bolton http://www.developsense.com) on Wed, 27/01/2010 - 22:23.In this blog post, my colleague James Bach talks about logging and its importance in support of exploratory testing. Logging takes care of one part of the accountability angle, and in an approach like session-based test management (developed by James and his brother Jon), the test notes and the debrief take care of another part of it.