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TDD master class – Vienna Feb 15-19

I will be in Vienna again in two weeks , from Feb 15-19 ,doing my TDD master class . There are two seats left – and I’d love to see you there! here’s what other people who attended had to say about this class . You can register here.
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18 Questions to ask yourself when choosing continuous integration and build automation tools

In a previous post I explained the different between Continuous Integration tools and Build automation tools , but there’s also lots of be said for HOW to pick a specific CI or BA tool. What do I look for in a CI tool? first and foremost – how intuitive...
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January at Israel .net user group: Unit Testing!

The January meeting of the Israel Dot Net Developers User Group will be held on Wednesday January  20, 2010.   This meeting will focus on real-real issues and practices in developing unit tests, with a variety of tools.  Our speakers...
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The difference between continuous Integration tools and automated build tools

Lots of people have a common misunderstanding of the (subtle) differences between the various tooling regarding continuous integration and build automateion. Here’s the gist of it: Build automation: Build automation tools are tools you use to automate...
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Unit Testing Biztalk : Two possible frameworks

BizTalk is notoriously hard to test. But I just came a cross a couple of interesting solutions to do unit testing for biztalk related logic and orchestration. BizMock : “BizMock is a framework for testing BizTalk solutions, using a Domain Driven Design...
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Poll: Do you use NUnit’s fluent API?

if you use NUnit, did you know it has a fluent API option? Do you use it? you can write the following: Assert.That( someString,       Is.Not.Null       .And.Not.Empty       .And...
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How SilverUnit can help you be famous

Want to be famous? If you’ve used SilverUnit to successfully help you test your silverlight code, I might be able to help. I’m working on a conference talk showing SilverUnit and the idea of system wide isolation, and I want to also mention people who...
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TDD: 4 questions that will help you create the simplest thing that could possibly work

Today in class I got to understand, for the first time, what I define as “the simplest thing that could possibly work” when doing TDD. Many people struggle with the idea of simplicity. the idea of doing things to the point of “micro-increments” to the...
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Oslo TDD Course – First day canceled

I’m so sorry to announce this. Due to various flight delays coming in to Oslo from Tel aviv, I am stuck in munich, only coming into Oslo tomorrow afternoon. That means that if you are part of my TDD course starting tomorrow, tomorrow’s day is canceled...
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RTM ready tests

a friend came up with a good way to describe good tests the way I see them (in my book I describe good unit tests as ones that are readable, maintainable and trust-worthy at the same time). He just called them RTM: Readable, Trust-worthy, Maintainable...
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