Tag Archives: Test Driven Development

Interviewed by Typemock

At the recent SharePoint Conference in Vegas I took a few minutes out to talk to Gil Zilberfeld of Typemock about what 21apps is doing with SharePoint and what I see as the next steps in the community regarding SharePoint … Continue reading

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TDD Kata – By Example video

Since attending Roy Osherove’s TDD Master Class I have been doing my daily TDD Kata, I will admit I have missed some days but generally I have been keeping up with it and really seeing the benefit. Here I talked … Continue reading

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Which build server are you using?

I am looking to provide some guidance on doing Continuous Integration (CI) on SharePoint projects,  looking at the concepts behind CI but also looking to provide examples that can help people get the most out of CI on a SharePoint project.   … Continue reading

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TDD Master Class – with Roy Osherove

For almost my entire career I have been involved in software development, and probably uniquely more often than not in an environment or role where I have needed to look at process improvement. This started with my first role where … Continue reading

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Comparing myself to Uncle Bob Martin

Before last week, I attended Roy Osherove’s TDD Masterclass,  I do not think I would have had the “you know what’s” to be able to put up an alternative solution to one of Uncle Bobs (aka Robert Martin) examples of … Continue reading

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Daily TDD Kata – now I’m doing what Jack does

Last week I had the pleasure of attending Roy Osherove’s Test Driven Development Masterclass,  I will post in a few days more on this but can say this is one of the best training courses I have ever attended. During … Continue reading

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TDD and SharePoint is it worth doing?

Just read a post by Sahil Malik where he gives his reasons for saying TDD + SharePoint 2007? Well – screw it! Not worth it IMO. The reason for his statement is that he sees the actual C# code developed … Continue reading

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Doing Agile in a Team of One – Day 2 and the End of Sprint 1

I recently wrote about my experience of doing agile development in a team of one,  where I questioned the idea that ‘If your the only member of the team is it really worth going through the same agile development process … Continue reading

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Doing Agile in a Team of One

If your the only member of the team is it really worth going through the same agile development process that you would in a team of eight? Isn’t it quicker to just crack open Visual Studio and start coding?   After … Continue reading

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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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