There is a lot of buzz amonst the development community at large about Continuous Delivery. Everyone seems to think its a good idea but I’ve seen few execute implementation well. In this post, we will briefly review what CD is and then I’ll give my opinions on the best way to implement it (HINT: its …
Do you know all the options available to use in the “Test Filter criteria” on the Visual Studio Test task? I didn’t but it sounded powerful so I did the research and am sharing it here. A Bing search will have plenty of StackOverflow and blog posts about using Test Categories to filter by: Surely …
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What is worse than having no unit tests? Answer: Having unit tests that don’t fail when they are supposed to. Unit testing is hard, I know. Especially for new developers. But forcing them to unit test just to say “we have unit tested” may cause more harm than good. If they don’t take the time …
Upgraded my app to the final bits today and had a few notes to share. My Steps to Upgrade Create a new WP7 project (created a new project to make sure I didn’t miss out on any project overhead changes and skipped a merge) Copied my unit test project to the new solution folder, and …
James Ashley posted a great tip on simplifying tombstoning by abstracting IsolatedStorageSettings.ApplicationSettings and PhoneApplicationService.Current.State to a common interface IDataStorage. This makes storing either temporary state data or more permanent settings data much easier with less code. This was a very good post but the duplication on the two IDataStorage implementations made me cringe a little. …
I recently had the need to change the state of a MediaElement to coincide with other page functionality. You can easily change the state of a MediaElement from the code-behind but you can’t unit test this. At first I thought, it would be easy to just bind the CurrentState property to a ViewModel property but …
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I have been working on my second application for the last two weeks and wanted to share some code. As stated before, I’m really enjoying the MVVM pattern and how it makes code more testable. I wasn’t sure that I would be able to test touch interaction with the phone but was able to work …
As you know I haven’t been able to unit test my ViewModels since I updated to the beta tools. With the April CTP I was able to use a c# class library with standard NUnit, updated system references and ReSharper to run the tests. After updating to the beta tools I got the following errors: …