Category Archives: Practices
IndyNDA – Testing Code From The Pit Of Despair
It’s the second week of February so if you read this blog with any frequency you know what that means. That’s right, IndyNDA is this Thursday (9 February)! This month we’re fortunate to have Phil Japikse returning to discuss testing … Continue reading
Filed under Community, IndyNDA, Practices, Testing, User Groups
Book Review: Driving Technical Change
A few nights ago I was over at my local Fry’s looking for a battery charger and a new Compact Flash card for my camera when I stumbled upon the book Driving Technical Change by Terrance Ryan. I think it … Continue reading
Filed under Practices, Software Development
Going Underground: Microsoft Moles
Despite having been around for several years I hadn’t heard about Microsoft’s Moles framework until a few months ago when one of my teammates mentioned it during the 2011 Indy GiveCamp. I was interested in learning more about it at … Continue reading
Filed under C#, Languages, Microsoft Moles, Practices, Software Development, Testing, Visual Studio 2010
Archiving with Mercurial
Recently I’ve been working with a third party component vendor to resolve a defect. They requested that I create a sample project illustrating the issue and send it to them as a zip archive. Building the project was easy but … Continue reading
Filed under Mercurial, Software Development, Tools & Utilities, Version Control
My Standard .hgignore File
Since I started using Mercurial a few months ago I’ve fallen in love with it. There was a bit of a learning curve for getting up and running but I found that the Tortoise tools are really intuitive and eliminated … Continue reading
Filed under Mercurial, Practices, Software Development, Version Control
October Speaking Engagement – Indy TFS
I’ll be presenting Web performance and load testing in Visual Studio 2010 to the Indy TFS user group on October 5, 2011. In this talk we’ll explore some of the basic test management capabilities in Visual Studio 2010 before diving in to building and executing both Web performance and load tests. Continue reading
Filed under Community, Indy TFS, Load, Performance, Practices, Speaking, Testing, User Groups
Changing the AnkhSVN Merge and Compare Tools
Using AnkhSVN and want to change the default merge and compare tools? This post will show you how. Continue reading
NUnit and WatiN
Today a colleague was trying to diagnose why some long neglected UI tests were failing. He quickly discovered that the tests weren’t failing because of changes to the code under test but because our UI test framework was misbehaving. Since … Continue reading
Filed under NUnit, Software Development
December Indy TFS Meeting
Mark your calendar for the second meeting of the Indy TFS user group. I will be presenting some tips for improving the TFS version control experience. Continue reading
Which Files Changed?
One of the complaints I’ve heard about TFS 2010 version control is that getting latest doesn’t show a listing of what was changed. This is untrue. TFS does indeed show such a listing it’s just not as obvious as in … Continue reading
