Under the hood and working with .Net, TDD, Software Design, and Agile Stuff
My wife and son are going away for two weeks soon to visit family in Texas. I'm seizing the opportunity to fire up ye olde XBox finally wrap up StoryTeller 1.0 (basically a tool for maximizing the usefulness of Fit testing and a .Net centric replacement for FitNesse). As a runup to the first real StoryTeller release, and to continue the thread on Fit/FitNesse testing and executable requirements that's been going around, I'm going to spit out some little posts (plus one big post) all week on tips and tricks for Fit testing and some lessons I've learned on automating acceptance tests. I haven't used every possible tool out there, but I've done a lot of test automation with a mixed bag of results. Check in occasionally and I might accidentally post something to help out some test automation newbies.
I'm thinking:
- Fail Fast
- Dependency Injection trickery
- Extending FitnesseDotNet with custom type handlers
- Don't Repeat Yourself
- Jumping back into "Build a CAB" to do the Subcutaneous Testing chapter because Ian Cooper keeps mentioning it and a client developer and I are plotting a way to do just that in his code next week.
- Maybe try one more stab at creating a DSL with FitnesseDotNet's DoFixture and comparing that to either a Fluent Interface in C# and/or a Ruby equivalent. That might take a bit of effort, but I'm dying to see how the three choices with "feel"
Anyway, the first one will hit tonight.
About Jeremy D. Miller
Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy previously worked as a systems architect building mission critical supply chain software for a Fortune 100 company and learned agile development practices as a .Net consultant at ThoughtWorks, one of the pioneers of agile development. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap (http://structuremap.sourceforge.net) tool for Dependency Injection with .Net and the forthcoming StoryTeller (http://storyteller.tigris.org) tool for supercharged FIT testing in .Net. Jeremy's thoughts on just about everything software related can be found on his weblog "The Shade Tree Developer" at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller, part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy is a Microsoft MVP for C#.
