Entries tagged with test driven development - Channel 9

ARCast.TV - How to Improve Testability with a Modular Architecture

Bob Familiar — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:26:00 GMT

Mario Cardinal and Aaron Kowall discuss how to easily test in an autonomous way an application conceived with modular abstractions such as the "layer". Mario and Aaron discuss how to partition the concerns of the application into layers and best practices regarding application architecture and modularity.

Suteki Shop and Mike Hadlow

Mike Ormond — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:12:00 GMT

An interview with Mike Hadlow, developer of Suteki Shop and owner of Suteki Ltd. Suteki Shop is an ASP.NET MVC open source eCommerce application. We chat about ASP.NET MVC, TDD, technology choices, pros, cons etc etc

Projekt Blog Poll: Mock Repository (Teil 7)

Dariusz Parys — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:42:00 GMT

Seit der Umstellung auf das Domänen Modell sind die Unit Tests im Projekt Blog Poll nicht kompilierbar. Um das zu ändern wird im 7. Teil ein Mock Repository erstellt und schliesslich getestet.

Mehr zum Projekt ab Mai auf meinem Blog.

Manuel Fahndrich and Peli de Halleux - The Synergy of Code Contracts and Pex

Peli de Halleux — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:59:00 GMT

Manuel Fähndrich and Peli de Halleux sit down for a quick coding session that shows how to use Code Contracts and Pex together. Code Contracts can be used to specify what your code should do, they get turned into runtime checks which Pex can analyse and try to find counter-examples for. This was a fun session with Manuel and really shows the synergy of the two tools/approaches.

Both tools can be downloaded from Devlabs or our academic project pages.

Code Contracts: http://research.microsoft.com/contracts
Pex: http://research.microsoft.com/pex

The Research in Software Engineering team (RiSE) coordinates Microsoft's research in Software Engineering in Redmond, USA.

US Public Sector Developer Dinner for Partners - ASP.NET MVC

keydet — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:58:00 GMT

This is a recording of the US Public Sector Developer Dinner for Partners covering ASP.NET MVC held on October 15, 2008 in Reston, Va.

ASP.NET MVC enables you to build Model View Controller (MVC) applications by using the ASP.NET framework. ASP.NET MVC is an alternative, not a replacement, for ASP.NET Web Forms that offers the following benefits:

Clear separation of concerns
Testability - support for Test-Driven Development
Fine-grained control over HTML and JavaScript
Intuitive URLs

What you will learn:

This demonstration focused session covers the fundamentals of the ASP.NET MVC framework. You will learn how ASP.NET MVC differs from the current ASP.NET Web Forms framework. Through a series of demonstrations, you will see:

How ASP.NET MVC provides you with fine-grained control over HTML and JavaScript
Test Driven Development fundamentals
AJAX with ASP.NET MVC fundamentals

To learn more about US Public Sector Developer Dinner For Partners, visit:

http://tinyurl.com/uspsdevdinner

Follow up resources (links, deck, code) from the dinner are available at:

http://tinyurl.com/aspnetmvcdevdinner

Nachi Nagappan - Experimental study about Test Driven Development

Peli de Halleux — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:59:00 GMT

This week, we dropped by Nachi Nagappan in the Empirical Software Engineering area. Nachi does studies on what works and does not work in software development using metrics.

We talk with him about Test Driven Development: Does it work better? How better? What's the catch?
To answer these questions, Nachi talks about a study done over multiple teams within and outside of Microsoft on TDD. The results are very interesting, as they are based on real teams with real products, so I definitely encourage you to watch the video or download the paper to grok the numbers in details.

Download the high-quality screencast from Downloads -> Screencast.
Download the full article on the TDD study at http://research.microsoft.com/ESM/ (Paper title: Realizing quality improvement through test driven development: results and experiences of four industrial teams).

The Research in Software Engineering team (RiSE) coordinates Microsoft's research in Software Engineering in Redmond, USA.

ARCast.TV - Roy Osherove on Test Driven Design

Bob Familiar — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:56:00 GMT

Denny Boynton talks to Roy Osherove about what it's like to write tests in the real world where we have lots of dependencies, and how to replace them for testing purposes. They also discuss where a tool like Typemock can come in handy.

geekSpeak recording: All About Team Build 2008 with Steven Borg

glengo — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:09:00 GMT

In this episode of geekSpeak, Steven Borg shares the merits of using Team Build 2008 to radically improve the quality of the code you write. Steven gives a great overview of how to set up automated builds and a build server, and the benefits of investing the time to do it right.

Steven also spends a bit of time talking about why he loves Test-Driven Development (TDD) - but pragmatically rather than zealously. Nonetheless, things like work items, build reports, logs and changesets available with Team Foundation Server can help developers zero in on bugs that "break the build". Breaking the build is bad, and we have a good chuckle about some of the stiff "penalties" that various development teams (even some within Microsoft) come up with for that infraction.

Also in this geekSpeak, get the scoop on what's on the horizon for setup and deployment projects, and hear about a great tool called WIX which makes building projects into MSI files super easy. Steven goes so far as to say that WIX actually changed the way he works, listen to him explain why.

Steven also gives tips on how many of you already have access to Team Foundation Server (and therefore, Team Build) and don't even know it. So it's easy to incorporate these tools into your software build process and, through the Continuous Integration they afford, drive up quality and enhance team involvement. As Steven says, it's like "a little bit of magic."

This geekSpeak was hosted by Lynn Langit and Mithun Dhar.

About our guest: Steven Borg

Steven Borg, a Northwest Cadence principal and the Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) practice lead, works with corporations to improve their automated build process and overall software development process. In addition, Steven assists the Team System community as a Team System Most Valuable Professional (MVP), and was a founding member of the Seattle-based VSTS User Group. Northwest Cadence is a Microsoft Certified Partner and VSTS Inner Circle partner that focuses exclusively on helping companies improve their Application Lifecycle Management using Visual Studio Team System.