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Yes, I was an Agile Manifesto signatory!
09 July 09 11:24 AM | CSharpener | 1 comment(s)

Yes, I was a relatively early signatory to the Agile Manifesto . I "signed" in the 19 May to 20 June, 2003 , time period. I did my first test-driven development (TDD) using the SUnit testing framework in the Smalltalk programming language. I was immediately...

Filed under: [Software Architecture], [Agile Development], [WebDev], [SoftDev], [TDD]

Your Company's Next Senior Software Architect???
02 July 09 04:08 PM | CSharpener | with no comments

I would *love* to join a new and exciting software development team that has a single-minded focus on delivering high-quality software products to great customers. Perhaps that team is working in your company! Please have a look at my resume (http://weblogs...

Filed under: [.NET C#], [Languages], [Software Architecture], [Human Factor], [SoftDev], [General], [ASP.NET], [TDD], [GameDev], [.NET]

[TDD] TDD'ing Sudoku in Ruby
14 July 06 07:30 PM | CSharpener | with no comments

Ron Jeffries , of Extreme Programming fame, and some other folks on the Test Driven Development email list , have started several passes at creating a Sudoku solver by following the TDD approach. I really am enjoying following Ron's pursuit in his article...

Filed under: [Languages], [Agile Development], [TDD], [Ruby]

[Tools] Unit Testing for JavaScript
30 May 06 09:09 AM | CSharpener | with no comments

The entire development community probably already knows about this, but I just discovered that an Open Source unit testing framework exists for JavaScript. The framework is JsUnit and it is a port from JUnit . If you find yourself doing extensive work...

Filed under: [Reference], [Tools], [SoftDev], [TDD], [JavaScript]

[Tools] RUnit - an NUnit test runner for ASP.NET
29 April 05 11:23 AM | CSharpener | 1 comment(s)

RUnit lets you run NUnit tests from within ASP.NET. Having beaten my head bloody against doing something very similar, I am very impressed with this elegant piece of work. Nice job!

Filed under: [.NET General], [Tools], [ASP.NET], [TDD]

[Agile Development] Fit and Fitnesse
29 October 04 08:47 AM | CSharpener | 1 comment(s)

Tools such as NUnit provide frameworks that make writing and managing unit tests relatively convenient. Unit testing is primarily a developer-driven process that helps software engineers to constantly ensure the integrity of their work. The success of...

Filed under: [Agile Development], [Tools], [TDD]

[TDD][ASP.NET] Some help for unit testing server-side ASP.NET
12 August 04 09:20 PM | CSharpener | 2 comment(s)

In the "Why didn't I think of this?" category falls a very helpful new article, "Server-Side Unit Testing in ASP.NET: How to create an HttpContext outside of IIS" by Steven Padfield, who did think of it. I started down this path, once upon a time, but...

Filed under: [.NET General], [ASP.NET], [TDD]