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Recording Silverlight actions on Microsoft Test Manager
Fri, May 27 2011 11:13
Whilst try to record some manual tests in MTM for a new Silverlight application I found I was not getting any actions recorded, just loads of “Fail to record the object corresponding to this action” warnings in the actions window. Turns out to fix this you have to do three things Install the Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 (MSDN Subscribers Only) – this adds... Read More...
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My upcoming speaking engagements for Spring/Summer 2011
Tue, May 3 2011 6:50
I have a couple of community speaking engagements coming up May 11 BCS Edinburgh on Agile Methods July 11 NxtGen Southampton on Test Driven development and mocking Both are free, so if you are in the either area, I would be surprised if you were at both given the locations, I hope you can come along Read More...
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How to waste time with Lab Management – Missing the obvious that MTM points to a Team Project
Wed, Mar 30 2011 4:56
I posted a while ago about common confusion I had seen with Lab Management . We I have recently managed to get myself completely confused whilst working with Lab Management. It turns out the issue was so obvious I managed to miss it for hours, but as usual I learnt a good deal whilst trying to troubleshoot my stupidity. I have a Lab Management system linked up... Read More...
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Speaking on VS 2010 ALM and Testing at events in Belfast and Dublin
Thu, Mar 10 2011 10:20
At the end of the month I will be speaking at a series of free Microsoft events in Belfast and Dublin. There going to be two session at each location Managing application lifecycle “From requirements to retirement” with Team Foundation Server 2010 Dublin - 31/03/2011 (AM): https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032480694&Culture=en-IE... Read More...
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Mocking out calls in unit tests to a TFS Server using Typemock
Thu, Mar 3 2011 18:06
If you are developing custom application using the TFS API then there is a good chance you will want to mock out the calls to your TFS server to enable better testing of the business logic in your application. The architecture of the TFS API does not lend itself to mocking using the standard means provided in most auto-mocking frameworks i.e there is not an interface... Read More...
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Gojko Adzic is presenting at the next Agile Yorkshire meeting on acceptance tests
Sat, Jan 29 2011 11:16
February’s Agile Yorkshire is on the 8th . The session will be given by Gojko Adzic on ’Long term value of acceptance tests’ I have seen Gojko speak at a number of events, including Agile Yorkshire, he is always an engaging speaker so well worth the effort to attend. I know I am going to give it a go, but have been really struggling to make Agile Yorkshire as... Read More...
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I am speaking at NEBytes in November on Mocking with Typemock Isolator
Tue, Oct 19 2010 15:51
On the 17th of November I will be speaking in Newcastle at the NEBytes user group on the subject ‘Using Typemock Isolator to enable testing of both well designed code and nasty legacy systems’. NEBytes meetings have an interesting format of a developer and an IT Pro talk at each meeting. The IT Pro session in November is to be given by another member of Black... Read More...
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Speaking at the Developer Group on Typemock Isolator on the 20th of October
Thu, Oct 7 2010 16:46
The detailed agenda for the Developer Group Meeting on the 20th of October in London has been published. I am speaking  in the afternoon on ‘Using Typemock Isolator to enable testing of both well designed code and nasty legacy systems’ Hope to see you there Read More...
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Problem faking multiple SPLists with Typemock Isolator in a single test
Fri, Sep 10 2010 10:20
I have found a problem with repeated calls to indexed SharePoint Lists with Typemock Isolator 6.0.3. This what I am trying to do… The Problem I am using Typemock Isolator to allow me to develop a SharePoint Webpart outside of the SharePoint environment  (there is a video about this on the Typemock site) . My SharePoint Webpart uses data drawn from a pair... Read More...
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Does anyone need a VS2010 Custom Build Activity for StyleCop?
Fri, Sep 3 2010 8:49
There is a noticeable omission form the tooling for StyleCop that you cannot integrate it into a TFS 2010 Build directly. There is a custom task to do it as part of MSBuild Extension pack , but this is designed for TFS 2008. So when I had to wire in StyleCop to our 2010 build process I hit a problem, I could Edit the .csproj files for each project to wire in... Read More...
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Running MSDeploy to a remote box from inside a TFS 2010 Build (Part 2)
Fri, Aug 13 2010 9:36
Another follow up post, this time to the one on MSDeploy . As I said in that post a better way to trigger the MSDeploy PowerShell script would be as part of the build workflow, as opposed to a post build action in the MSBuild phase. Doing it this way means if the build failed testing, after MSBuild complete, you can still choose not to run MSDeploy. I have implemented... Read More...
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How to edit a TFS 2010 build template when it contains custom activities.
Fri, Aug 13 2010 7:29
I posted a while ago on u sing my Typemock TMockRunner Custom Activity for Team Build 2010 . I left that post with the problem that if you wished to customise a template after you a had added the custom activity you had to use the somewhat complex branching model edit the XAML. If you just followed the process in my post to put the build template in a new team... Read More...
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Getting code coverage working on Team Build 2010
Thu, Aug 5 2010 11:08
If you have VS2010 Premium or Professional you have code coverage built into the test system. When you look at your test results there is a button to see the code coverage You would think that there is easy way to use the code coverage in your automated build process using Team Build 2010, well it can done but you have to do a bit of work. What’s on the build... Read More...
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Next weeks Agile Yorkshire meeting: Some things about testing that everyone should know, ...... but were afraid to ask, in case somebody told them.
Thu, Aug 5 2010 3:10
It is Agile Yorkshire time again, it is a real shame that due to the move of the meeting from the 2nd Wednesday to the 2nd Tuesday I really struggle to make the events. Particularly irritating this month as this one look really interesting and the speaker, Ralph Williams, from past evidence always is entertaining. To quote the Agile Yorkshire site the session... Read More...
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Running SPDisposeCheck as part of a 2010 CI Build
Sat, Jul 3 2010 14:47
SPDisposeCheck is a great tool for SharePoint developers to make sure that they are disposing of resources correctly. The problem is it is a bit slow to run, a problem as this will mean developers will tend not to run it as often as they should. A good solution to the problem is to run it as part of the continuous integration process. There is are posts on how... Read More...
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IDD Building a breakfast comment to a become process – now there is a leap
Sun, Jun 20 2010 2:48
Gil at Typemock has been posting about some ideas we discussed over breakfast at the Typemock Partner conference a while ago, I have been a bit slow at commenting, so I though I better add to the conversation. Though Typemock is an excellent mocking framework, for me basic mocking is not its biggest win. All the ‘classic auto mocking’ of interfaces to speed TDD... Read More...
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Mocking Sharepoint for Testing
Thu, Apr 22 2010 5:47
In my previous post I talked about using Isolator to mock Sharepoint to aid the speed of the development process. I find this a productive way of working, but it does not really help in the realm of automated testing. You need a way to programmatically explore a webpart, preferably outside of SharePoint to check its correctness. You could use the methods in my... Read More...
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Post SharePoint Evolution thoughts
Wed, Apr 21 2010 11:01
I am on the way home from my whistle stop visit to the SharePoint Evolution conference . I must say congratulations to the organisers for putting on such a successful event given all the problems they have had related to speakers and air travel, well done. My slides, on Testing Webparts with Typemock, will appear on the conference site soon, but I thought it... Read More...
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Speaking at Developer Day South West
Fri, Apr 16 2010 9:03
I have just heard I will be speaking at Developer Day South West on June the 5th. My subject is Using the new Developer and Test features of VS 2010 to track down and fix bugs, this is basically the same session as I have at our TechDays fringe event yesterday. Hope to see you there Read More...
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Running Fitnesse.NET tests using MSTest - Revisited
Mon, Mar 29 2010 16:35
In 2008 I wrote a post Running Fitnesse.NET tests using MSTest .  Recently I had need to us this technique on a VS2010 project, and as is so often the issue the code that worked then does not seem to work now. All I can assume is that the Fitnesse API had altered, but I thought I was using the same assemblies! So I pulled down the code from http://sourceforge... Read More...
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