Over at TheServerSide they had a nice writeup of an example of how to use NUnitASP to test the UI of some pages.
I am not sure how valuable this would be to invest my time in, espically as it seems that there is now way to test repeaters or gridviews (there is a datagridtester however).
I will have to look some more and see if ther eis a way to do this.
This looks really cool.
You can download it here for free.
Included Refactorings
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Add Validator | |
Create Overload | |
Encapsulate Field | |||
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Extract ContentPlaceHolder | |
Extract ContentPlaceHolder (create master page) | |
Extract Method | |||
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Extract Property | |
Extract Style (Class) | |
Extract Style (id) | |||
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Extract to User Control | |
Flatten Conditional | |
Inline Temp | |||
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Introduce Constant | |
Introduce Local | |
Introduce Local (replace all) | |||
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Move Declaration Near Reference | |
Move Initialization to Declaration | |
Move Style Attributes to CSS | |||
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Move to Code-behind | |
Rename | |
Reorder Parameters | |||
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Replace Temp with Query | |
Reverse Conditional | |
Safe Rename | |||
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Simplify Expression | |
Split Initialization from Declaration | |
Split Temporary Variable | |||
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Surround with Update Panel |
UPDATE: It seems that installing this may have removed some of the features of the old Refactor! that I was frequently using (?). I used to use the “Surround With–>Region” all the time. Now that is gone. I will have to investigate.
Sam Gentile thinks that MS is at a crossroads in terms of web development.
He thinks with all the cool, free, cutting edgs stuff out there, like Ruby on Rails, MS may soon lose out on all the “alpha geeks”, who move on to newer and better things while MS stays locked in the past.
I’m not ready to crown RoR the winner of anything yet. True, MS is usually not on the cutting edge, but they usually do a pretty good job adopting good ideas. There are only a handful of serious RoR sites out there. If that number grows a ton, then it will mean something.
Martin Fowler has some similar concerns though, so maybe this will come to fruition.
This is awesome!
Wikipedia has a whole list of programming anti-patterns, and James Carr lists some TDD anti-patterns.
Some of these are pretty funny:
Magic numbers: Including unexplained numbers in algorithms
Superboolean logic: unnecessary comparison or abstraction of boolean arithmetic
Boat anchor: Retaining a part of a system that no longer has any use
Roy Osherove blogs that he was mistaken when he suggesting using mocks for data access code. With the improved Rollback attributes that he helped create, along with people like Justin Burtch who created a similar attribute for VSTS, they are now thinking that this is the way to go: rolling back database changes.
Roy is no fan of VSTS testing, finding a few bugs and some questionable design decisions. Those don’t seem like deal breakers for me, but we will see.
The BindingList is very nice, but doens’t support some things like sort and filter that a lot of people would like to have (see here for a short discussion on BindingList vs Datatable).
This project, in sourceforge, called BindingListView is supposed to allow you to get a sorted or filtered “view” of a bindinglist.
Might be worth checking out.
It looks like I have fallen victim to an asp.net no-no.
I have always used a label in my forms when I want to have some text that is updated by the code behind. Turns out that I should probably be using literals.
Even more, I didn’t even realize that the label object allows you to specify a text element that will gain focus when the label is clicked. Nice.
This site looks really interesting. They seem to have loads of video content, interviews and examples.
The one that got me looking at the site was their video on MVC/MVP pattern.
http://polymorphicpodcast.com/shows/mv-patterns/
I will be checking this out.
Rhino Mocks seems to be one of the most preferred mock frameworks out there.
Phil Haack, CodeBetter and Markitup have article showing how to test events on interfaces (x2) and objects in Rhino Mocks respectively.
They even have some videos up showing some Rhino Mocks stuff.
Haack also has a nice example of using MVP and Rhino Mocks to test some asp.net pages.
ScottGu has an article on using LINQ to SQL which is basically going to work like an ORM product shipping in the next version of .net / visual studio called Orca.
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/05/19/using-linq-to-sql-part-1.aspx
Chris May 