Designing good Cucumber feature files
Alister Scott wrote a really nice paper on designing good specifications with examples/bdd scenarios/acceptance tests – focused on Cucumber, but applicable to other tools as well. He captured how to evolve horrible scripts into something quite useful. I strongly recommend reading it, especially if you’re working with UI tests. Now…
castle Archive
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Castle demo App #2: Monorail basics
Posted on May 13, 2008 | No CommentsIn the second part of the Castle demo application tutorial, we look into the basic features of Castle’s powerful Model-View-Controller system, called Monorail. Monorail is based on Ruby on Rails, and brings two very important features to .NET web development: 1. Good separation of concerns between the domain model, workflow... -
Castle demo app: ActiveRecord basics and unit testing
Posted on May 7, 2008 | 25 CommentsCastle project is a great .NET enterprise application framework. It helps us develop .NET applications and web sites by providing the plumbing and making it easy to test the most important parts of the system. I’ve decided to build a demo application with the Castle project for an internal training... -
Alt.Net beers after the Castle session
Posted on May 3, 2008 | No CommentsAlt.NET folks are organising an informal meeting after my Castle session. The first Alt.NET beers event will start at 8:30 in the Crown pub, five minutes after Skills Matter offices. For more information, see Seb’s blog post about the Beers event. -
What makes a good application framework
Posted on April 21, 2008 | 4 CommentsI have been using the Castle Project for about two years now, and it is definitely one of my favourite tools. It is truly a great example of how a good application framework should be written. Although all the concepts that it provides have been around for a while and... -
Enterprise .Net Toolkit: Unusual Suspects
Posted on January 21, 2007 | 15 CommentsIt’s been almost a year since I got involved in a big .Net enterprise project. My first choice would be to do it mostly in Java, but due to politics, or lack of better judgement, .Net was a given constraint. We pushed the technology to it’s limits and found out...
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