Using Context as an example group in rSpec(lostechies.com)

submitted by agilejoe(860) 4 years, 2 months ago

This perplexed me because the rDoc indicates that [context] method is an alias for [describe] method. Turns out there are two different places where describe is defined. One in main (the outermost layer) and one inside an ExampleGroup. The one in the example group isn't aliased. read more...

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Customer Perception Model: Know thy customer.(lostechies.com)

submitted by agilejoe(860) 4 years, 5 months ago

It's important to know how your "working" software is being received out in the field. Immediate customer feedback is one thing during a release but what about after the code actually gets out into the field. How are those users feeling! read more...

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Information Radiators: Make life visible(lostechies.com)

submitted by agilejoe(860) 4 years, 5 months ago

A couple of people have asked me how we track our work for our iterations. We basically use a somewhat simple information radiator. Information radiators serve to quickly give everyone on the project team a quick indication on what needs to be done, what is being worked on, and what has been done. Information radiators can be as a simple as a few cards on a cork board to huge 54” plasma displays. It’s up your team to determine what works best. read more...

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BDD Macro and Template Usage screencast(lostechies.com)

submitted by agilejoe(860) 4 years, 5 months ago

What timing I just finished reading JP's blog about how he paired with Scott Bellware and modified his Macro for BDD. Well, while they were busy doing that I decided to make a screencast on some modifications I did to JP's initial macro. I extended his macro in concert with some ReSharper templates I use to show just how to take advantage of BDD. Funny thing is I extended it to do the same thing he and Scott did but I added a little flare to it :-) Take a look at the screen cast to see what I mean. read more...

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NSpec merges with NBehave!(lostechies.com)

submitted by agilejoe(860) 4 years, 7 months ago

I am pleased to announce that Tim Haughton has agreed to join his NSpec project with NBehave! So what does this mean for you the developers? Well it means that you have one OSS project team supporting multiple BDD frameworks for the .Net framework! Think of it more as a centralized project for the many facets of BDD in the .Net community. read more...

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Complexity Based Programming(lostechies.com)

submitted by agilejoe(860) 4 years, 8 months ago

So what is it? As an Agile practitioner do you ever struggle having to justify Paired Programming to management? Typical management reaction to even the idea of Paired Programming is “Why would I pay two programmers to do something what one programmer can do?” You can rant and rave about quality and breadth of knowledge exchange but to management money talks and (you can fill in the rest). So what can you do to better explain the argument from a cost perspective as well as quality perspective? read more...

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Behave# merges with NBehave(lostechies.com)

submitted by agilejoe(860) 4 years, 8 months ago

I am proud to say that Behave# and Morgan Persson's NBehave project have combined into one OSS project under the moniker of NBehave. We decided to keep the NBehave name because as Morgan kindly put it: "...it connects to the cousin framework(s) in other languages/technologies like RSpec/NSpec, JUnit/NUnit, Hibernate/NHibernate etc. so it would only be natural to have RBehave/JBehave and NBehave." read more...

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Enterprise Agile Generations (lostechies.com)

submitted by agilejoe(860) 4 years, 8 months ago

“The many flavors of Agile development, while powerful are very sensitive to some degree. The Adoption of these processes and practices require cultural changes from management all the way down to development and testing. The failure at any one of these points can lead to catastrophic break down in the alleged implemented Agile methodology that leaves adopters with a rather unsettling perspective of Agile all together.” In order to deal with simply having organizations give up, I was thinking of this evolutionary scale for Enterprise Agile adoption. I will refer to these evolutionary tracts as Generations. This is not an attempt to rate Agile maturity as some organization may exist fine in Gen 1 for a period of time and have great success. This is merely my perception on the possibilities of growth in Agile adoption to a certain state of development nirvana. (Do you hear the flowers singing…) J. (If there is already a term for this out there, please let me know. ) read more...

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Great Dane, Golden Retriever, Chihuahua == Developer Estimates (lostechies.com)

submitted by agilejoe(860) 4 years, 9 months ago

I just read Ayende's and Udi's post on estimation. I was intrigued because over the last three year we have been using "story units" to estimate our work load for all our projects to great success. read more...

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Attempting to Demystify Behavior Driven Development(lostechies.com)

submitted by agilejoe(860) 4 years, 9 months ago

After receiving several emails and reading Roy Osherove's post on Behave#, I wanted to give more incite and answer some questions that were asked about Behave# and BDD in general. read more...

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Good bye NUnit.Behave hello Behave#(lostechies.com)

submitted by agilejoe(860) 4 years, 9 months ago

Most of you who read my blog know that I have been working on NUnit.Behave which was meant to mirror the functionality of rbehave in .Net. My initial spike was a success but it required that you inherit from an base NUnit Test Fixture. Even I wouldn't use it! So I spent some time decoupling it from NUnit into it's own framework. At the same time my idea caught on and Jimmy Bogard decided to do the same thing. Well to make a long story short we have been collaborating on the differences between our two frameworks over the last week and have decided to go with Behave#. I love OSS, where else could this be possible! read more...

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Announcing the ALT.NET Open Space Conference - Oct 5th through 7th - A(codebetter.com)

submitted by agilejoe(860) 4 years, 10 months ago

We will soon open the conference website and begin to collect registrations for the ALT.NET Conference. I guess you could consider this as an official "pre" announcement. Save the date, and stay tuned! The ALT.NET conference will take place in Austin, TX from 5PM on Friday, Oct 5th, through noon on Sunday, October 7th at the St. Edwards University Professional Education Center. Participating in the organizing committee, are: Jeremy Miller Ayende Rahien Hamilton Verissimo Bret Pettichord Roy Osherove Jean-Paul Boodhoo David Laribee James Kovacs Raymond Lewallen Wendy Friedlander read more...

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NUnit's new Constraint model (lostechies.com)

submitted by agilejoe(860) 4 years, 10 months ago

I was working on some code this weekend and happened to come across NUnit 2.4's new constraint objects. I can't believe I just now found out about this! I am glad to see the the mocking frameworks influenced this addition to NUnit. Being a big fan of fluent interfaces, I love how the new constraint model allows the assertion model to be easily read. read more...

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More BDD xBehave Madness!(lostechies.com)

submitted by agilejoe(860) 4 years, 10 months ago

Well over the past week or so I have been working off and on with improving the usage of NUnit.Behave. It started off being tightly coupled with NUnit since you actually had to inherit an abstract fixture that exposed the "Given, When, Then" BDD constructs. With a bit of tinkering with C# generics and some fluent interface magic, I managed to decouple the code into its own, dare I say, framework. read more...

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Introducing NUnit.Behave or insert what ever other catchy name(lostechies.com)

submitted by agilejoe(860) 4 years, 10 months ago

OK I was bored yesterday and I decided to update what I had worked on the other day from Dan North's post on rbehave. read more...

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RBehave with NUnit(lostechies.com)

submitted by agilejoe(860) 4 years, 11 months ago

I just read Dan North's article on Introducing RBehave. In a jealous rage of not being able to utilize Ruby fully in .Net. (YET) I decided to see if I could pull off what Dan had created in rbehave using NUnit. Because I am a huge proponent of reuse, I didn't want to extend my existing Test Coverage with a brand new framework. After all BDD coupled with ReSharper and Visual Studio make for happy testing. read more...

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