Application taxonomies
A classification of software application can help you to think about an architecture and/or determine a reference architecture in your catalogue.Multiple characteristics can be used to set up a...
View ArticleDesign for Testability
Hello,I have been reading up on "design for testability" because some of the code I deal with is not always easy to test. Some thoughts ....Context“Business” wants software application to help them do...
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Design for testability - developer testing context
Hello,Some more thoughts on design for testatbility in the developer testing context (see previous post ).Test automation plays an important role in the developer testing context. The advent of the...
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Winforms (VS2005) DataGridViewComboBoxColumn, CTRL+0 and Cannot set Column...
Hello,I recently had some trouble with setting a dataGridViewComboboxColumn to a dbNull value with the CTRL+0 (zero) keystroke. As you may know, the datagrid supports the CTRL+0 keycode to force a...
View ArticleDesign for Testability - Dependencies
Hello,This post is a continuation on previous posts about design-for-testability (here and here).Control and observation are important characteristics in test-automation. If our code under test makes...
View ArticleStarting with Pex (Program Exploration)
Hello,I recently downloaded Pex from Microsoft Research. Pex is a tool for finding test cases for you on basis of “looking” and “executing” your code. It is fully integrated in Visual Studio 2008 (c#)....
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Pex - test case 1
Hello,I just started investigating Pex . In order to learn the tool I'm using several (academic) test cases to see how Pex can help there.This case case is called Commercial Cut percentage for an...
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Pex - test case 2
Hello,I'm currently trying out Pex , an automated unit test generator. I'm trying out several scenarios. If you like you can read about a previous test case I tried out. In the same spirit , I'll start...
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Pex - Test case 3
Hello,This post is a continuation of previous posts. Feel free to check them out.IntroductionCase study 1Case study 2In this example I base my example on the following rule:In our Order system we need...
View ArticlePex - test case 4
Hello,I've got one more test scenario for Pex. From comments on my previous postCase study 3 I understood that the way I specified the PUT was not done correctly (though Pex generated the unit test...
View ArticlePex - test Case 5
Hello,This post is a continuation in a series of post about Pex, a test case generation tool from Microsoft research. This test scenario is a variation of test case 4. (sorry in advance for the table...
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Pex - Test Case 6
Hello,In the previous Pex posts I used examples that used primitive types and/or strings as parameters for methods under test. In this post I will "test" Pex how it wil cope with a method that accepts...
View ArticlePex - test case 6 (revisited)
Hello,In the previous case I tried to come up with a scenario where a method takes a "complex" type instead of primitive types like integers of booleans. The exercise didn't go as expected. By the way...
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Pex - test case 6 (revisited...again)
Hello,I did some further test on test case 6 . I removed all pex assumptions regarding the dates. This time Pex had no problem finding the test cases necessary for a complete block coverage.So the PUT...
View ArticlePex - Test Case 7
Hello,In this Pex test case I will investigate unit test on classes the have dependencies.( feel free to read the previous posts regarding this subject).I'll first start with how you would unit test...
View ArticleVISUG event : ASP.NET MVC
HelloYesterday (14/oct/2008) , I attended a presentation on ASP.NET Model-View–Controller (MVC) framework by Maarten Balliauw that was organized by VISUG ( a Belgian .NET community). Last web...
View ArticleIsolating your Dependency Injection Container
Hello,While searching for some background information about Dependency Injection Frameworks (aka Ioc containers ; ex. Windsor Castle, Unity, Spring.NET , StructureMap, etc) I stumbled on this posting...
View ArticleVISUG event : VSTS 2010
Hello,Yesterday (27/11/2008) I attended the VISUG presentation about Visual Studio team System 2010 ( previously known as Rosario) . Pieter Gheysens gave a focused presentation on some highlights based...
View ArticleVISUG Event : Entity Framework & WCF
Hello,Kurt Claeys gave a presentation about using the Entity Framework (EF) in a distributed scenario (Service oriented with WCF, Tight coupled Client-server) for the Visug , the Belgian Visual Studio...
View ArticleAzure trivia
Ever wondered how a Azure datacenter looks like on the inside?On the following link you can see a video of a Microsoft datacenter that might host the Azure platform services and your Azure "enabled"...
View ArticleAzure boot camp material
The Windows Azure Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of technical content to help you learn how to use Windows Azure. It also contains many slide-decks . If you care for a more condensed...
View ArticleAzure scalability - Elastic demand
I have just recently dived into Azure and cloud computing in general. Some things I presumed to come out-of-the box from Azure was auto-scaling. Elastic supply of computing power is one of the main...
View ArticleNuget & TFS
The Nuget package manager lets you easy reference "external" assemblies like moq or ninject in Visual Studio. But when you upload the Visual Studio project with the nugetted references into TFS the...
View ArticleIn case you're wondering if Azure is down ...
http://iswindowsazuredown.tumblr.com/:-)ps : MS promises a full analysis report on the outage of 28/29 february
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How to use an A-drive on Azure Hosted Virtual Machine with a Non-genuine...
When you publish a web/worker role to Azure and request that Remote Desktop is activated, you can visit your VM afterwards via RD.Your can browse through your drives .....I still wonder how I can use...
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