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referencing gac assemblies will result to broken build
Published 07-28-2006 1:15 PM | jokiz
i was creating this excel workbook reader module so i referenced the excel com interop assembly which resulted in a failing build in our build server minutes after i commit. the problem is because the said assembly is in my machine's global assembly cache...
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safe commit with continuous integration
Published 07-19-2006 10:33 PM | jokiz
whenever i have a major change in our projects (e.g. add, remove, rename files), i always try to check if i've broken something by running a nant build locally. everybody here is monitoring our build server and it is a bad impression to break something...
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setting up data for persistence tests
Published 07-12-2006 3:55 PM | jokiz
i find writing persistence tests for business objects to be tiresome. imagine setting up all the data that a current business object needs, including all the references needed by the test business objects to be saved. initially, the tests assumes a default...
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error code 1 returned by nunit.console
Published 06-16-2006 3:55 PM | jokiz
i am having this problem with nunit.console ran by nant. i have recently segrated our tests to have the persistence tests to be on a separate project. all is well, i was able to attach another task for the nant build for the added test project and i have...
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test driven observations
Published 06-09-2006 8:48 PM | jokiz
i have been doing tdd and reading agile developer blogs helps a lot. Jay Fields have blogged about his observations in doing TDD and i can see my experience is slowly catching up with his. Still a lot to learn though. http://jayfields.blogspot.com/2006...
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The Craftsman article series
Published 06-07-2006 10:45 PM | jokiz
an officemate pointed me to " The Craftsman " series of article in objectmentor by Robert Martin. I am currently reading through the series and it seems that the first parts are about refactoring. Looks like a good read... Robert Martin's articles
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embracing interfaces
Published 06-01-2006 6:22 PM | jokiz
For the past years of my career as a .NET developer, i can hardly remember that i used interfaces as parameters or return types from my business objects. DAL interfaces are out of this context since you want your DAL methods to be generic for whatever...
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Unit testing CSLA business objects
Published 06-01-2006 1:04 PM | jokiz
Our current project is using CSLA 1.1 for the business object framework and NHibernate for persistence. I don't know if this is a good combination but personally, I'd rather go for stored procedures since using NHibernate for a small application such...
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struggling with unit testing
Published 05-27-2006 1:56 AM | jokiz
we were through with the first iteration of our project and all i can say was it was a mess. although we were able to include much of the functionality for the one-month iteration, the tests took minutes to run since they are talking to external systems...
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Visual Sourcesafe vs SVN, AnkhSVN, TortoiseSVN
Published 05-26-2006 2:19 PM | jokiz
I have worked with used Microsoft Visual Sourcesafe and now in my current company, we are using the SVN-Tortoise-Ankh combo. One thing i noticed though is that teammates really have to communicate. Although we are just two in the team, in order to prevent...
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tedious tdd
Published 03-08-2006 11:39 PM | jokiz
i've been reading a number of samples of tdd including the bookmarkcollection sample of james newkirk in his blog here ( http://blogs.msdn.com/jamesnewkirk/archive/category/5458.aspx ). some samples i've read tests for the value of the property after...
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test driven development
Published 02-09-2006 3:41 AM | jokiz
i have long wanted to do test-driven development and currently i've been reading a number of articles about it (before implementing it of course). i've just read the Test-Driven Development in .NET article of Peter Provost in CodeProject and what struck...
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