Monitoring and enforcing code quality seems to be somewhat of a holy grail in the software industry in that nearly every development shop pursues this goal but few ever even come close to actually achieving it. Here are a few of the common failed approaches I’ve seen: Developer’s Handbook – Despite being a darling of [...]
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Here are a few scenes from the first day at my new job: My welcome kit consists of a coffee mug, a pen, and a DVD of the Big Lebowski. My new boss is a huge fan of this movie and several technical artifacts and regular meetings are named after characters and scenes. As we [...]
I used Resharper’s unit-test runner for the first time while spelunking WatiN last week and quickly became a fan. If unit-test runners were high school boys, here are a few reasons why the Resharper test runner would be dating the entire cheer leading squad while the NUnit test runner would have to bribe a distant, homely cousin in order [...]
Participating in the open source community and becoming an avid code reader were two themes in my six month roadmap to becoming a better developer. I made progress in both of these areas in the last few days by downloading and exploring the source code for WatiN, an open source library that I have used [...]
In the Agile community, a war room refers to a team room where developers work, customer meetings take place, and all projected related information is displayed. It is supposed to maximize communication and transparency into the health of the project. I think one sign of a healthy agile project is evidence of some good fun. These [...]
Welcome to the 2nd installment of the monthly Caffeinated Codey awards. As I mentioned in the first installment, the lucky winners will receive a caffeinated or alcoholic beverage of their choice if we should ever meet. Of course, when when I first made the offer I assumed this was mostly an empty threat, however it looks like [...]
Several weeks ago I used WatiN (pronounced as What-in) to create a suite of automated GUI tests for an old internal ASP application that we were upgrading. Inspired by the popular ruby testing tool Watir, WatiN is an open source .NET wrapper around the Internet Explorer that you can reference in your test project and use to get access [...]
