Archive for February, 2008

  • If you live in or near London, come down to Skills Matter on March 27th for an intensive two hour FitNesse workshop to share experiences and discuss best practices. Participation is free (I think that upfront registration is required). See http://skillsmatter.com/net-tdd-fitnesse/pcd/5013 for more details.

    FitNesse.NET workshop in London

    If you live in or near London, come down to Skills Matter on March 27th for an intensive two hour FitNesse workshop to share experiences and discuss best practices. Participation is free (I think that upfront registration is required). See http://skillsmatter.com/net-tdd-fitnesse/pcd/5013 for more details.

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  • Last week, at the London .NET User Group meeting, Ian Cooper talked about Test-driven development, focusing on both good and bad practices. I’m a big fan of learning from anti-patterns and mistakes of other people, so the second part of his session was very interesting to me. Here is a...

    When TDD goes bad

    Last week, at the London .NET User Group meeting, Ian Cooper talked about Test-driven development, focusing on both good and bad practices. I’m a big fan of learning from anti-patterns and mistakes of other people, so the second part of his session was very interesting to me. Here is a...

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  • The print-on-demand service that I’ve chosen for my book has a fairly nice web user interface with lots of Ajax code. Generally, that web application is one of the best aspects of doing business with them. That’s why I was surprised to find a rather amateurish flaw in their shopping...

    The wrong way to do a shopping cart

    The print-on-demand service that I’ve chosen for my book has a fairly nice web user interface with lots of Ajax code. Generally, that web application is one of the best aspects of doing business with them. That’s why I was surprised to find a rather amateurish flaw in their shopping...

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  • UPDATE: My thinking on this has changed significantly in the years following this post, but according to Google it’s still quite popular. If you’re interested in combining FitNesse and Selenium, make sure to read this post as well: How to implement UI Testing without shooting yourself in the foot. It...

    How to test AJAX sites with FitNesse and Selenium RC

    UPDATE: My thinking on this has changed significantly in the years following this post, but according to Google it’s still quite popular. If you’re interested in combining FitNesse and Selenium, make sure to read this post as well: How to implement UI Testing without shooting yourself in the foot. It...

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  • I’m a great fan of Cory Foy’s blog — I learned how to use FitNesse from his articles. He is experimenting with FitNesse again. Read his post on how to write fixtures in F#, Microsoft’s new functional language, on cornetdesign.com.

    FitNesse and F#

    I’m a great fan of Cory Foy’s blog — I learned how to use FitNesse from his articles. He is experimenting with FitNesse again. Read his post on how to write fixtures in F#, Microsoft’s new functional language, on cornetdesign.com.

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