Category Archives: Development

Future Creep – You aren’t gonna need it!

How many times have you added an additional parameter or bit of logic to your code because you thought it could be useful and it’s easier to add whilst your already changing the code?   If you are your introducing Future … Continue reading

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The cost of Test Driven Development

A short and to the point post by Dror Helper at Typemock looks at industry findings on the cost benefits of doing TDD. The Cost of Test Driven Development ..the research proved two points: Using TDD reduce the amount of … Continue reading

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Improve you SharePoint code with Red Gate ANTS

As development practices around the SharePoint platform mature the demands for better quality and better performing solutions are being made.  Gone are the days when Enterprises will accept that the Roll-Up Web Part they purchased will not scale beyond a … Continue reading

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Best Practices: Test Driven Development with SharePoint Slide Deck

In contrast to the Agile SharePoint development with Scrum session this was very light on the slides.  In good Agile tradition I adopted a Pair Programming approach with me at the keyboard and the audience been my code buddy.  Everyone … Continue reading

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Best Practices: Agile SharePoint Development with Scrum Slide Deck

As promised the slide deck from my Agile SharePoint Development with Scrum. Abstract Provide an introduction to Agile development using Scrum and discuss how the iterative approach to development helps the customer to get the solution they want. Look at … Continue reading

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TDD in SharePoint Using DI – Summary

This post is part of a series on Test Driven Development – Using Dependency Injection In this 5 part series we refactored the solution developed in our white paper Unit Testing SharePoint – Getting into the Object Model to make … Continue reading

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TDD in SharePoint – Step 2 Implementing DI

This post is part of a series on Test Driven Development – Using Dependency Injection We introduced some terms previously to help describe some of the things we need to do in order to make our code more testable and … Continue reading

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TDD Using Dependency Injection – Step 1. Refactoring

This post is part of a series on Test Driven Development – Using Dependency Injection We introduced some terms previously to help describe some of the things we need to do in order to make our code more testable.  In … Continue reading

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TDD in SharePoint – Introduction to common vocabulary

This post is part of a series on Test Driven Development – Using Dependency Injection There are a number of terms that you are likely to hear very early on in your journey to Test Driven Development, these terms generally … Continue reading

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TDD in SharePoint – Using Dependency Injection

In our previous white paper Unit Testing SharePoint – Getting into the Object Model we introduced the concept of mocking, looked at the new Typemock Isolator AAA API to demonstrate testing against SPSite, SPWeb, SPList and SPListItem objects and reinforced … Continue reading

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