Getting Started With Selenium For ASP.NET Developers(iamnotmyself.com)

submitted by NotMyself(215) 2 years, 8 months ago

During the Olympia Software Craftsmanship Workshop last weekend, Jeff Olsen (@olsonjeffery) demonstrated the use of the web testing framework Selenium. I was really impressed with the Selenium IDE and how easy it was to use in Firefox. One of the menu items of the IDE is to export a test as C#. I wanted to find out exactly what it takes for a .NET developer to get started using Selenium. This post is intended to help others get started. read more...

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Announcing the Olympia Software Craftsmanship Workshop(elegantcode.com)

submitted by NotMyself(215) 2 years, 9 months ago

You’re at work and you catch yourself writing another 100 line method that you can’t test and really can’t even understand. You scour the internet for ideas but there are so many ideas. Some say don’t test, others says don’t test anything, still others say test every keystroke! You just let your head drop to your desk with a solid thud. You think to yourself, “Is this really the best I can do?” read more...

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How To Be Awesome: Enforcing ToDos With Specification Tests(iamnotmyself.com)

submitted by NotMyself(215) 2 years, 9 months ago

Using specification tests to document bugs in the system and flag hacks in the code to get around the bugs. The hope being that when the bug is fixed, a test will fail and you know where to go to remove all your nasty hacks. read more...

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ALT.NET Seattle 2009 is Happening(codebetter.com)

submitted by NotMyself(215) 3 years, 1 month ago

If you attended ALT.NET Seattle least year, you might be wondering whether or not it's happening this year. I am excited to announce that we are actually going to host an ALT.NET Seattle conference this year. What: ALT.NET Seattle 2009. (The site is still being worked on. Thanks to Justin Bonozier and Shoshanah Bain for getting the site up). Where: Digipen (thanks to Jeff Tucker for lining up the space) When: Evening February 27th through March 1st. Registration: Opens this tuesday evening at 6PM. We're holding on registration to allow the word to spread. There will be a max of 150 attendees. Check the wiki on Tuesday for details. read more...

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Automagic Tooling and the Dumbing-Down of Developers(unhandled-exceptions.com)

submitted by NotMyself(215) 3 years, 6 months ago

Summer of NHibernate's Stephen Bohlen discusses the primary difference between software automation tools and the developers who use them. The post is a nice corollary to the recently popular "Why I am Unimpressed with Rawness of Skillz" post. read more...

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Introducing Fluent NHibernate(blog.jagregory.com)

submitted by NotMyself(215) 3 years, 6 months ago

I’ve adopted a project from Jeremy Miller that I think has the potential to be a really useful tool. It’s called Fluent NHibernate, and it’s primarily a fluent API for mapping classes with NHibernate. read more...

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ASP.NET Preview 4 Released(codeplex.com)

submitted by NotMyself(215) 3 years, 6 months ago

Scott Hanselman just alerted his followers that ASP.NET Preview 4 bits are ready for consumption on codeplex. read more...

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NHibernate: Testing The Performance Urban Legend(iamnotmyself.com)

submitted by NotMyself(215) 3 years, 6 months ago

I wanted to challenge the dogmatic urban legend passed down from .NET developer to .NET developer since the classic ASP days. That dogma simply states you should always access your database via stored procedure for "performance reasons". Inline SQL is BAAAAAAD. So I fired up Visual Studio, created a class and started writing tests. read more...

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