The creators of typemock have recently published Test Lint. Test Lint is a free extension for Visual Studio 2010 which looks for common problems in your unit test code as you type.

Daniel Marbach Announcement, Test Driven Development, Testing Roy Osherove, Test Lint

Test Driven Development (TDD) is often reduced to the three phases

1. Red – write a test
2. Green – make it run
3. Refactor – clean up code

There is nothing wrong about these three steps. But there is more involved in test-driving your development.

Urs Enzler Agile, Test Driven Development TDD

Dani and me have started to keep a list of software development and presentation skills related books that we have read.

Check it out here.

Urs Enzler Uncategorized Books

Finally the latest news about Windows Phone 7 is arrived and it seems that Microsoft has ultimately learned its lessons. Windows Phone 7 has a totally news concept regarding what we are used to have with the Windows Mobile editions. But the Windows Phone 7 concept is not only new for “Microsoftish” phones it is also totally new for all smart phone operating systems on the market (including iPhone).

Daniel Marbach Mobile, Software Microsoft, Smartphone, Windows Phone 7

When I talk with fellow developers new to Scrum, I often hear a fundamental misunderstanding about Sprints. These colleagues  are normally used to Waterfall or RUP methodologies. As a consequence, they think of Sprints as very short repetitions of the following phases: requirements (planning meeting), design, implementation, test (sprint review as acceptance).

And this is completely wrong!

Let me tell you why.

Urs Enzler Agile, Methodology scrum, Waterfall

I found a promising community on agile software development created by Kelly Waters.

If you are interested in agile development then check it out (click on banner):

Visit Agile Community

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I’m heavily experimenting with git using github.com. Just in case you’ll ever receive the following error message:

failed to push some refs

Don’t panic as I did! Just need to make a pull request first because there might be changes that we need to pull in. Afterwards it is easy possible to push your changes to github.com. Have fun!

Daniel Marbach Announcement Failed, Git, GitHub, Push

Updated: Something went wrong with the code snippets. Now it’s okay.

Today, we”l have a look at nested views in my series on agile UI development in .NET using an extended MVVM pattern (table of contents).

There are two kinds of nested views:

• contextually nested views and
• hierarchically nested views (master-detail scenarios)

Urs Enzler .NET, Agile, Architecture .NET, Agile, Architecture, Design, User Interface, WPF

Just a quick announcement. I wrote together with Alain Baumeler from bbv Software Services AG an article about hybrid application development targeting both .NET and .NET compact framework. The article is written in German and published in the .NET Magazin.

Here is the quick overview of the article:

Hybride Softwareentwicklung in .NET – Einführung in die Vorteile und Patterns der hybriden Softwareentwicklung für .NET Compact und .NET Framework

Mobile Geräte mit Windows Mobile sind trotz zunehmender Konkurrenz bei Businessapplikationen vielfach die erste Wahl. Dieser Artikel führt in die Thematik der hybriden Softwareentwicklung ein und zeigt deren Vorteile und etablierte Patterns anhand von Praxisbeispielen in .NET.
von Daniel Marbach und Alain Baumeler

For those who are interested in mobile application development and fluent in reading German language I really recommend our article! Buy the magazine Thanks for your support.

http://it-republik.de/dotnet/dotnet-magazin-ausgaben/Parallel-Programming-000333.html

I’m also happy about feedback. Leave comments either by email or by posting your comment on planetgeek!

Daniel Marbach Announcement, Mobile .NET Magazin, Article, Hybrid Mobile Application Development

We got the following geek question from Henrik:

Hi,

Thanks for sharing this preview of the MockStyle.Stub feature!
Its exactly was I was looking for when I googled this page,
so now I just can't wait for a release with this included  

I tried to find some information on futre release plans but could not find any.
Could anybody help me out? When could we3 expect a new NUnit
supporting MockStyle.Stub?

Cheers!

Henrik

The answer to this question is a bit complicated. Let me tell you why:

The current development team of NMock2 (Thomas, Peter and me) will not actively continue to develop NMock2. We’ll still provide basic support (bug fixes) but no new features. However, we have planned to make one last release (including the Stub feature) when we are sure that it works in our projects. This will be soon because we didn’t have a new defect in the last two months or so.

The reason why we have lost interest is that Moq has gained a lot of momentum and has a much broader community support. Furthermore, Moq provides some basic improvements that we cannot simply add to NMock2: besides the type safe, refactoring friendlier syntax, it allows very clean AAA (Arrange, Act, Assert) unit tests.

On the other side, there exists the NMock3 project on CodePlex that adds a type-safe syntax wrapper around NMock2. Check it out, when you already use NMock2 in your project.

So for short: the release including the Stub feature will be available soon, but it will also be the last release.

If you can’t wait until the official release then get the code from the subversion repository and start the build.release.cmd, et voila!

Happy mocking (whatever framework you use)

Urs

Urs Enzler .NET, Ask a geek NMock2