Build Automation and Continuous Integration with TFS 2010

Published January 12th, 2012 Under Continuous Integration | Leave a Comment

This video explains how to leverage TFS 2010, Windows Workflow (WF), and MSBuild to streamline the build and deployment processes and enable continuous integration. Continuous integration is an Agile best practice that allows for faster, more frequent feedback from other developers and even business stakeholders by providing regular builds, unit test runs, and deployments via automated build processes instrumented using a build server such as TFS Build. Read more

Test First Development with Pex and Moles

Published January 5th, 2012 Under Unit Testing | Leave a Comment

This video provides a demonstration of Pex, a parameterized white box unit test tool, and Moles, an isolation framework. These two tools useful for test-first development in the context of .NET development. Read more

Goal Driven Load Testing using Visual Studio

Published December 21st, 2011 Under Performance Testing | Leave a Comment

This short video discusses the types of performance testing, perform goal driven load testing with Visual Studio; analyzes the test run results and generate a report. Read more

Moving from MBUnit to NUnit

Published December 14th, 2011 Under Unit Testing | Leave a Comment

This video explains the reasons and the effects of moving from MBUnit to NUnit for .NET unit testing. Both tools are open source solutions that belong to the xUnit family of unit testing tools. A post relating the experience of a different company making the same transition can be found here. Read more

Use Setup Arguments with Moq

Published September 12th, 2011 Under Unit Testing | Leave a Comment

This tutorial shows how to use Setup parameters in the Returns of a mocked function using Moq. Moq (pronounced “Mock-you” or just “Mock”) is the only mocking library for .NET developed from scratch to take full advantage of .NET 3.5 (i.e. Linq expression trees) and C# 3.0 features (i.e. lambda expressions) that make it the most productive, type-safe and refactoring-friendly mocking library available.

Video source: http://thethoughtfulcoder.com/blog/52/Moq-Use-Setup-arguments-parameters-in-the-Returns-of-a-mocked-function

Hardcore .NET Production Debugging

Published September 5th, 2011 Under Unit Testing | Leave a Comment

This video explains how to attack the nastiest bugs in your applications, how to look at what’s causing that grinding halt of your ASP.NET application and how to find the cause of that horrible memory leak in your Windows Forms application. Knowledge of these production debugging tools like WinDbg and SOS is not only important for cases when you really don’t have access to Visual Studio and your source code, but these tools also reveal a lot more information than just the regular managed code debuggers.

Link to video http://ndc2011.macsimum.no/mp4/Day2%20Thursday/Track7%200900-1000.mp4

SpecFlow: Pragmatic BDD for .NET

Published August 18th, 2011 Under Functional Testing | Leave a Comment

This video gives a brief introduction to using SpecFlow and shows the latest interesting features. SpecFlow is a tool for the for .NET ecosystem that supports the implementation of the ideas behind those methodologies. SpecFlow builds upon the success of Cucumber, the famous BDD tool from Ruby &Rails. SpecFlow provides integration to Visual Studio, MonoDevelop, NuGet and Silverlight.

Download this video from http://ndc2011.macsimum.no/mp4/Day1%20Wednesday/Track5%201340-1440.mp4

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