Suppose you have to fix a bug in an ASP.NET application. You’re a TDD-guy so once you identify it, you write a test which should reproduce it. Then you run it and… null pointer exception. Your testing framework may have pointed you to the exact line...
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How do I unit-test a class which depends on HttpContext?
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Keep an eye open on what LINQ does
Today I was profiling an application. The timings pointed to a piece of code that executed a query using LINQ. I opened an SQL profiler and saw what queries were performed. Here they are: SELECT [t3].[value] AS [Key] FROM ( SELECT ( SELECT [t2].[Role
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Camp Roberts RELIEF Recap
This past week at Camp Roberts has been incredible. All of the groups present did an amazing work, and we got to test InSTEDD’s GeoChat in a completely different scenario and integrate it with most of the other applications present to come up with...
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Sharing users among systems
One of the issues that arose during the integration process was how to maintain user identity when integrating between different systems. During the exercise, data was moved around anonymously, without having more than a display name describing an...
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Camp Roberts CBE
This week Star Tides, in partnership with the Naval Postgraduate School, will be organizing a Concept-based Experimentation (CBE) in Camp Roberts (CA). The objective is to to analyze the state of the art of current social and information related applications...
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Eclipse plugin to exclude svn and cvs folders in text search
Once again, Sergio was complaining because matches inside svn folders were showing up in search results. Since I like challenges, I wrote this small Eclipse plugin that excludes .svn and CVS folders from searches. Here’s the relevant file (contains...
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Tests are also Code
Many times we put all of our effort in developing an elegant solution to a certain problem we have, thus leaving testing to a second place, without too much consideration for it. Regardless of being using TDD or just creating unit tests for the already...
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State vs Behaviour Verification
I stumbled upon an excellent article by Martin Fowler in which he describes the difference between stubs and mocks, and afterwards the difference between classic and mockist TDD. Be warned, the article is a few years old, but still a highly recommendable...
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Beauty
Some time ago I found a quotation by Buckminster Fuller: When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. Although...
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Eclipse Plugin to sort proposals by hierarchy
Again, Sergio, a friend of mine, came up with a need: to sort Eclipse Java proposals by hierarchy. What that means is that if you have a type C < B < A (where < means subclass of), first C‘s methods will be shown, then B’s methods and finally A’s methods...
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