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VSLive SF 2015: ‘Better Unit Tests Through Design Patterns’ Slides & Code
As promised, here are the slides from the Better Unit Tests through Design Patterns: Repository, Adapter, Mocks, and more… talk that I did this week at VSLive Orlando 2015. Here’s the abstract: You’re sold on unit testing. You’re even doing “test first” development – but there are always those nagging questions. How do your user interfaces fit…
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VSLive SF 2015: ‘Better Unit Tests Through Design Patterns’ Slides & Code
As promised, here are the slides from the Better Unit Tests through Design Patterns: Repository, Adapter, Mocks, and more… talk that I did yesterday at VSLive San Francisco 2015. Here’s the abstract: You’re sold on unit testing. You’re even doing “test first” development – but there are always those nagging questions. How do your user interfaces fit into…
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Agile 2014: “Better Unit Tests through Design Patterns” Slides & Code
I spoke at Agile 2014 yesterday and did a called “Better Unit Tests through Design Patterns: Repository, Adapter, Mocks, and more…”. Better Unit Tests through Design Patterns: Repository, Adapter, Mocks, and more… You’re sold on unit testing. You’re even doing “test first” development – but there are always those nagging questions. How do your user…
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Slides & Code from “Testing & Debugging Microsoft SharePoint Applications with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012”
Just wrapped up speaking at Microsoft TechEd New Orleans 2013. As promised, here are the slides and demos from the talk I did with Brian Randell. Testing and Debugging Microsoft SharePoint Applications with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 Visual Studio 2012 updates 1 and 2 have introduced a host of new capabilities to make it easier…
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VSLive Chicago 2013: “Design for Testability” slides & code
I just wrapped up at VSLive Chicago 2013 and, as promised, here are my slides and code samples from the “Design for Testability: Mocks, Stubs, Refactoring, and User Interfaces” talk. Design for Testability: Mocks, Stubs, Refactoring, and User Interfaces You’re sold on unit testing. You’re even doing “test first” development – but there are always…
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VSLive Las Vegas 2013: “Design for Testability” slides & code
I just wrapped up at VSLive Las Vegas 2013 and, as promised, here are my slides and code samples from the “Design for Testability: Mocks, Stubs, Refactoring, and User Interfaces” talk. Design for Testability: Mocks, Stubs, Refactoring, and User Interfaces You’re sold on unit testing. You’re even doing “test first” development – but there are…
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Unit Testing & Test-Driven Development Courseware for Visual Studio 2010
Well, like I mentioned in my last post, I’m planning to publish a lot of the old courseware that I’ve developed over time. The idea is to share the materials that I’m no longer using with the good folks on the internet rather than to have it all sitting around collecting virtual dust on my…
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Lab: Refactor for testability using the Repository pattern
I had a long drive yesterday to go visit a customer and while I was driving it occurred to me that I have LOTS of courseware that I’ve written that is just sitting around gathering virtual dust. Whether they’re parts of classes that never fully came together or they’re for courses that target old versions…
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Visual Studio 2012 Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for Developers course
My second course for Pluralsight went up recently – Visual Studio 2012 Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for Developers. Here’s the course description and outline: Visual Studio 2012 ALM for Developers This course covers Microsoft’s Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tooling from the perspective of a software developer. Topics include using TFS to minimize the impact of…
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Call to Console.WriteLine() crashes Visual Studio 2010 Load Test Agent
This doesn’t make a shred of sense to me but I’ve been working on running some MSTest unit tests as part of a Visual Studio 2010 Load Test on a VS2010 Load Test Rig and ran into a very weird problem. Most of the unit tests behave perfectly when run as part of a load…