Category Archives: Agile
Does TDD speed up development?
Scott Bellware posted a great article on what is often one of the main reasons for people dropping or never starting TDD or Unit Testing; often stating ‘It takes longer doing TDD’ and ‘I can code this much quicker without … Continue reading
Unit Test SPSite construction Exceptions with new Isolator method
In our white paper Unit Testing SharePoint Solutions – Getting into the Object Model we needed to use Natural Mocks to allow the testing exceptions that are thrown as part of the the SPSite constructor. Our test code looked like … Continue reading
Isolator for SharePoint
Another great day for SharePoint developers. Typemock have announced the introduction of Isolator for SharePoint. Take a look at our white paper showing Isolator in action and how this really does make Unit Testing your SharePoint solutions that much easier. … Continue reading
Unit Testing SharePoint – Getting into the Object Model
The white paper and associated code can be found here Unit Testing SharePoint Solutions – Getting into the Object Model The first document in the Beginners Guide to Test Driven Web Part Development Series provided an introduction to unit testing, … Continue reading
Reflection on The Future of Unit Testing @ PDC2008
Great panel session at PDC on the future of Unit Testing. There were some good discussions by some ‘luminaries’ in the field (Peter Provost, Daniel Cazulino and others) that really talked more about where we are today than about where … Continue reading
Type Mock embraces SharePoint
TypeMock have recently made some updates to their site and have started to pull together information around testing SharePoint. I’m really getting to like the new AAA (Arrange, Act, Assert) approach that they are building into the product from version 5 … Continue reading
Agile Perspectives, Industry and Microsoft @ PDC 2008
Going to PDC? into Agile development? going to be there for the Pre-conference sessions on Sunday? You need to attend the session Agile Perspectives, Industry and Microsoft Presenter(s): Mary Poppendieck, Grigori Melnik Agile development is here! During this all-day agile … Continue reading
State of Agile Development in 2008
Version One have released the results of it’s third annual State of Agile Development 2008 Survey. The results are based on 2319 surveys representing 80 countries and gives a really useful insight into how agile development techniques are being adopted, … Continue reading
Patterns & Practices SharePoint Guidance and a TypeMock Video
The Patterns & Practices group are looking at Guidance on SharePoint and are making regular code drops to the CodePlex project. They have done research and the customers have ranked the requirements in order of importance. Unit testing and debugging … Continue reading
Beginners Guide to Test Driven Web Part Development
We are very pleased to announce the publication of our white paper Beginners Guide to Test Driven Web Part Development. This white paper forms part of our Unit Testing SharePoint Solutions – The Basics series and provides an introduction to … Continue reading







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