Garry Pilkington


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Liverpool, UK

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Unit Testing Videos
The Learn Visual Studio.net website has just published a new series on unit testing , covering an introduction to unit testing, using MSTest, and NUnit. These are always good sources of practical information to help you get up to speed on anything .net...
Do you test your private methods?
There is ample discussion on the blogosphere as to why you should or shouldn't test your private methods.  In the 'NO camp' http://www.redhillconsulting.com.au/blogs/simon/archives/000119.html , http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/chad_myers/archive...
Objectives 2009
I am a little late in setting out my resolutions, and although 1st January is a good time of year to set out your objectives, I’ve never liked to be restricted by a date. If I smoked (which I don’t), and I wanted to give it up, I wouldn’t wait until the...
My end of year tool honours list
Well the holiday season is finally upon us, and I would like to take this opportunity to post a list of applications that I personally have found useful over the past 12 months. There are some classics in there, but a few surprises. Have a look, there...
Integrate NCover with CC.Net
In previous posts I have covered getting cc.net up and running , combining NUnit reports with cc.net and generating documentation automatically as part of the build process . In this post I want to briefly describe how to get your unit test code coverage...
How do you test private methods?
This morning I read a post by Davy Brion who was explaining a technique to test private methods. Although the post was interesting, it was a comment by Rafferty Uy that got me thinking. He suggests that you make your method protected instead of private...
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Being saved by...unit tests
The time comes in every developers life when a higher up requests what they think is a minor change. You think about it and agree also thinking that it would not take too much time. It is only when you get back to your desk, check out the code and look...
My notes on becoming a better developer
Following on from Justin Etheredge post about becoming a better developer, I would just like to add my nuggets of info. I find that it is very easy to get swamped by the amount of info out there just on .net. I am currently following three simple practices...
Retrofitting Unit Tests
This is a post that I had written a while back and never committed to it, I think it's because the title has the potential to kick up a storm. Well I have been reading the new http://stackoverflow.com web site for the past couple of hours (I know I should...
CC.Net and NUnit play nice together
This is a very quick post outlining what you need to do to get NUnit results displayed in your CC.Net results window. There are two steps for this, step one; configure your NAnt build script to call NUnit and step two; get the results merged in CC.Net...
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