Agile Development

Visual Studio and the Evil Unit Test Wizard

Sunday, July 16th, 2006
I fancy a bit of rant. And today’s punchbag is Visual Studio’s Unit Test Wizard. <rant> It is evil and it should be dropped from the product. My previous company outsourced the development of a software project and I ended up reviewing the code from the first iteration. I had concerns about some of the code; one concern ... read more

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Return of the waterfall…not

Thursday, February 16th, 2006
If you’ve had any exposure to software development methodologies then you’ll love this spoof conference website…Waterfall 2006 After years of being disparaged by some in the software development community, the waterfall process is back with a vengeance. You’ve always known a good waterfall-based process is the right way to develop software projects. Come to the Waterfall ... read more

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NUnit and Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2

Thursday, August 11th, 2005
I was struggling to get NUnit 2.2 to work with a VS2005 Beta 2 project. I kept getting a BadImageFormatException when I tried to launch NUnit-GUI.exe. The solution was to add the following line to the <startup> tag of nunit-gui.exe.config (and nunit-console.exe.config if you are using it from the command line): <supportedRuntime version=”v2.0.50215” /> EDIT: For the final ... read more

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Test driving class libraries with NUnit and Visual Studio 2003

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005
Recently, I was developing a class library project in Visual Studio 2003. I wanted to do Test Driven Development with NUnit, and use NUnit as the debug harness for my library. I tried several approaches but none of them seemed to work well for me. My main requirements were that: It should be version control friendly ... read more

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