Gojko Adzic

I frequently get this question about unit or acceptance testing: If sending e-mail or some other sort of notifications is required by the business process, do we test this and how? This arrived again yesterday from a reader, in the following form:

…and one component of our application is email notifications (pretty straightforward stuff). This occurs on registration, forgot password, etc. I am having a tricky time thing about how to test to make sure these email notifications actually arrive. Is it common practice to use the same tool to login to a dummy email account on gmail to make sure the message makes it there?

This seems like a hack, and I’m curious if you’ve ever had to deal with a similiar situation.

First of all, I regard sending e-mail synchronously from the web request as a very bad practice. Continue Reading »

It was really great to talk about Castle Windsor today in front of a full room. Thanks very much to all of you who showed up and especially thanks to Mike Hadlow for participating in this event. Mike will probably post his source code and powerpoint slides on his site soon. Here are the links and the source code from my examples:

• source code
• Castle project main web site
• Automocking container
• Method validator facility

I also mentioned the new UK .NET Events site, where you’ll find a calendar of .NET-related events.

I’m getting this question very often from web site readers, and I’ve decided to put the answer online because it deals with a crucial misconception about FitNesse and signals a really bad usage practice. The question appears in different shapes, mostly around templating or simplifying complex scripts. This is the latest version: Continue Reading »

Mike Hadlow and I will present the principles of dependency injection, show how to implement them with Castle Windsor and then talk about some more advanced stuff such as Windsor facilities and
implementing custom functionality with them.

This session is aimed at .NET developers at all levels, it is free but upfront registration is required for capacity planning. We have only about 15 seats left in the room so if you were planning to attend, now is the time to sign up.

During the Coherence Special Interest Group meeting in London, Brian Oliver from Oracle yesterday announced the start of the Coherence Incubator project. Coherence Incubator is a new online repository of projects that provides reference implementation examples for commonly used design patterns and integration solutions based on Oracle Coherence. Continue Reading »