How to unit test a method that has void as return type
How do I test a method that returns void? For example a method like this. public void...
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Scrum guide 2011
In July a new update was provided to the Scrum Guide by Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwa...
SDC 2009 slidedecks and demos
For me this was my first SDC and I really had a lot of fun. Great discussions with sp...
I’ll be speaking at the Microsoft Developer Days 2009
Thanks to the many votes we received on our wildcard proposals from attendees, collea...
Why developers should not be happy with a project manager
I’ve been on a fair amount of projects in the past 10 to 15 years and almost all of t...
Asserting private objects with unit testing
There’s a lot of discussion going on about designing for testability. One of the prob...
Best developer tools
Because of the nature of my work, coaching people onsite and training people in clas...
Faking extension methods
I just read a post from Daniel Cazzulino about mocking extension methods. He wants to...
FinalBuilder Action lists
As I’ve said before, years ago on some project I first got the opportunity to work wi...
TypeMock Isolator and LINQ
I’m doing some work with TypeMock and I start to love it more and more. For example, ...
Unit tests are for functionality, not code!
Marco mailed me this morning with the following sentence Unit tests are meant to test...
Refactor! Pro
I just finished the two day Professional Agile Programming course in which I introduc...
Unit testing in Visual Studio 2008 tips
I blogged about new Unit Testing features in Visual Studio 2008, but missed the follo...
Agile principles, patterns and practices
A while ago I read the excellent book by Robert C. Martin, called “Agile Software Dev...
Refactor! Pro goodness Safe rename
Renames a nonprivate method or property in the class in a manner that does not break...
Refactor it!
Now this is a great initiative! Billy McCafferty is doing a weekly contest where he u...
Bitslapping contest LX vs Compile on Test integration in VS2005, part 2 response
Well, it seems Alex took things seriously and is slapping his bitstick around. Think...
TestDriven.NET 2.0 RTM
Some time ago I had a discussion with my colleague Alex Thissen about the differences...
Beat up your team members with the Continuous Integration Token
While writing his upcoming book The Art of Agile Development, James Shore is posting ...
Pragmatic Manager
I’m currently reading Behind Closes Doors, written by Johanna Rothman and Esther Derb...
An introduction into the TDD Mantra
A while ago I gave a presentation, called “An introduction into the TDD Mantra”. The ...
FITnesse and .NET
FIT is definitely something I have to dig into in the near future. I’m trying really ...
MSDN Webcast Agile and eXtreme Programming
The people behind Enterprise Library will be doing a webcast about Agile and eXtreme ...
Refrigerator Code
During MIND, a colleague asked the audience if they were developing sexy shit. Bob Ko...
How much can unit testing suck?
I’m not sure how much, but Wil Shipley seems to think an awfull lot! And he seems to ...
Making the date
It was only recently that I blogged about the Five Pound Bag. Now Ron Jeffreys explai...
VS 2005 TestDriven Development?
Unfortunately Visual Studio 2005 RTM isn’t online, as Jeffrey Palermo ‘promised‘. Str...
Five Pound Bag
Martin Fowler writes about project planning and why the Agile way is the better way. ...
Visio UML as Sketch
When reading the latest posts about XP == DATT by Paul Gielens, I noticed him mention...
Testing software
Before Test Driven Development (TDD) most developers just randomly clicked through a ...
Smells to Refactoring
Today I was browsing a site about Java. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not switching, but I ...
The agile workspace
If you pass by here on a regular basis, you might’ve noticed my affection for Agile b...
Painting a fence the Agile way
David Anderson nearly choked on his sandwich recently, because his wife said “You k...
Trust is the Essence of Agile
A few years ago two colleagues and me were asked to help out in some project that was...
Modeling Artifacts
If you want to know about modeling and Agile modeling specifically, take a visit at S...
Refactoring For Your Code Base
A few days ago I’ve watched a webcast by Brian Button on refactoring. For the most pa...
Test Driven Development with a Database
A lot of times you hear or read about not touching your database when (technically) u...
Agile vs. RUP
At our company we have these meetings, where people from the same competence in a reg...
DevDays Day 2 Agile Development
Because I was too late for the Indigo chat, I decided to meet up with friends at the ...