I am in the train back home and wanted to try out quickly to migrate our WPF functional tests written has Unit Tests to BDD Specifications.
Here is the code I started from, pure Unit Test using NUnit and White
Continue readingIn September 2009 I posted about a tool I am using to build my MSBuild projects from the shell “Build your .NET project with a right click in Windows Explorer”
Last week I changed to MSBuild Launch Pad (mPad) which also add a context menu when you right click your project or solution files.
Continue readingAs you might now from reading my blog I tend to automate as much as I can.
Why? Because I hate to do repetitive tasks. First because it is boring, at least for me, and as a developer we have more interesting things to do. Second because executing repetitive tasks tend to be error prone.
Continue readingSome time ago when I had to reinstall our Jobping Continuous Integration server, which is Team City I also decided not to reinstall any smtp server but to use Gmail server.
Here is the configuration that I used, which worked perfectly for me
Continue readingWhat is the difference between this code
using (var fileStream = new FileStream(settingsFilename,
FileMode.Open))
{
return ReadSettings(fileStream);
}
FileMode.Open))
{
return ReadSettings(fileStream);
}
using (var fileStream = new FileStream(settingsFilename,
FileMode.Open,
FileAccess.Read))
{
return ReadSettings(fileStream);
}
FileMode.Open,
FileAccess.Read))
{
return ReadSettings(fileStream);
}
Almost nothing, just a little FileAccess.Read !
But this little thing makes a big difference when you run your software in a secured environment.
The application with this piece of code was deployed to a customer reporting that the application was crashing at a the point of reading the settings. Weird, really weird. After getting back the log and I finally discovered that using juste FileMode.Open needs modify rights and that’s was the issue because the customer deploy the settings file on a folder in which the user doesn’t have the modify rights.
A couple of month ago I was introduced by a colleague to f.lux.
At first I thought, hum ok another software that will just eat some memory for nothing. But after 2 days, in fact 2 evening, yeah I work a lot in front of monitors, I was conquered and I recommend this tool to all like me that spend their days and nights in front of monitors!
Continue readingThe other day I posted about “Automated functional tests using Watin and MSpec” which we do at Jobping as a spike to automate our functional tests on our ASP.NET MVC 2 site.
Yesterday evening I was facing an issue in my base class WebBaseSpec which led to really strange side effects. Basically when I was running one unit test alone it was Green, running all or more than one unit test will fail miserably with the well known STA issue of Watin.
Continue readingWe have updated our url shortener for Jobping. jobp.in has moved along to Version 0.5. While maintaining as little features as possible!
Since the initial version we have placed a restriction(web.configurable) on the domain names that the shortener will shorten. We did this so only domains under jobping.com would be processed by the shortener. We wanted to maintain the integrity of the jobp.in domain. With this in place you can be sure that if you click a link shortened by http://jobp.in it will always go to our site www.jobping.com site.
Continue readingI am conducting a spike for a couple of evening on the way we might automate our functional tests at Jobping.
I started with Watin and MSpec and the MSpec excellent plugin for ReSharper 5 which gives the following great outputs directly from Visual Studio
Continue readingYesterday I got the new issue of MSDN Magazine in my mailbox and as often I started to go quickly around it to get an overview of what kind of subject’s it talks about. And as often I end up at the last page’s article which is the first I am reading.
This time David S. Platt is writing about “Fundamental Laws” which start like that
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