Gojko Adzic

As of now, the second edition of Test Driven .NET Development with FitNesse is free online. You can download the full PDF version or read the book online in HTML at http://gojko.net/fitnesse.

What’s new in this version?

Since the book was originally released, both FitNesse and the .NET FIT test runner were improved significantly. All the examples in this book are now updated to be compatible with the latest releases of FitNesse (20091121) and FitSharp (1.4). I re-wrote parts that are no longer applicable to the new FitSharp test runner, especially around Cell Operators. In a classic example of self-inflicted scope creep, I also wrote a new chapter on using domain objects directly.

I also changed the tool used for assembling the book. Instead of Apache FOP, I used XEP which will hopefully make the layout a bit better. Fonts (especially the code font) were also changed to make the book easier to read.

What about the paperback

I will make the paperback available soon. At the moment, the second edition is only available online.

Some people heard this already, so here’s an official confirmation before twitter beats me to it: I’ll re-publish my Fitnesse book as HTML online and offer the PDF as a free download. I’m still cleaning up HTML and it is probably realistic that this will all be online on Friday. more information to come soon

To my great surprise, someone has offered to take over my webtest fixtures project (fitnesse+selenium RC integration for java and .net), which I’ve discontinued over a year ago.

Chris McMahon and Marisa Seal are now the new mummy and daddy of the project. You can read what Chris had to say about it. Good luck!

“A lot of people are very keen on TDD as an idea, but a lot of teams struggle with technical hurdles on how to get there”. This is how David Evans started his “Fast Track TDD” talk tonight at Skills Matter, talking about how important it is to set up the structure for TDD from the start rather than try to retrofit it later. Continue Reading »

I’ve just uploaded Trinidad maven and transactional spring plugins compatible with FitNesse release 20090818. As of this version, the basic package (fitnesserunner) is completely bundled with FitNesse so you do not need any additional downloads for JUnit or in-process integration. Maven and transactional spring plugins are still separate maven artifacts and can be downloaded from maven.neuri.com. The version number is now 20090818, the same as the relevant FitNesse release.

Apart from 20090818 FitNesse compatibility, the only change in this release is the fact that fitnesse.trinidad.Test interface is renamed to fitnesse.trinidad.TestDescriptor for compatibility (this is in the main fitnesse download).

For examples and more information, see http://fitnesse.info/trinidad