At #agilestaffs on Monday 24th January, I delivered my first workshop on how to do bdd in .NET with StoryQ. The demo was in an MVC2 app. Here’s the slides: https://docs.google.com/present/embed?id=djnm698_69d3wpr8gd And here’s the steps: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1zlL3XC4KBAx5GCsq1hixdlYjamTckImvbjHDDn3K5eg&embedded=true

As part of the build process on the apps team at Esendex, we like to be doubly sure nothing is broken by not only compiling, running unit tests, acceptance tests, integration tests AND regression tests, but also checking that all our views compile too. There’s loads of blog posts on how to do this, quite… Read More Compiling MVC Views

How many times have you wanted to write a test which uses a real file (xml, xslx, xls, txt etc.) and got stumped as to how to include it in your project, and in source control AND then pop it in your c:\ temp to reference a filepath. You generally want to do this as… Read More Saving resource files to disk for testing in .NET

At last night’s 3rd GeekUp Nottingham we had @prettierpixels come all the way from Preston to deliver a fascinating talk: “Thrifty Testing: Usability on a budget”. We learned the quickest, cheapest and easiest way to get usability feedback on your website or app was to observe people (friends, family, strangers at starbucks) having a first… Read More GeekUp Nottingham October: Thrifty Testing

In our hudson setup we have several jobs per project. For example we’ll have: build – compiles and runs tests. integration – runs integration tests. triggered by build’s success devstage – ftp’s our project to the development test environment. triggered by the build’s success. release to live boxes. This is a manual trigger. Each of these jobs… Read More Hudson – pass the %build_number%

Last night I attended my first Girl Geek Dinner in Nottingham at Jam Café organised by @kateblatherwick. It was awesome!!!!! The venue and the staff were fabulous. The food was delectable and plentiful; I was stuffed! Fed and wined for £5 (thanks to our sponsors @esendex). After an introduction from Geoff, our marketing director at… Read More Nottingham Girl Geek Dinner

I’ve just booked a lovely holiday to northern Italy to stay with my friends. It’s about an hour or so away from Milan and in a village just outside of Piacenza. Perfect place to go if you want to experience authentic Italy. http://www.trecorone.it/trecorone/Welcome.html This will be my third visit and I can’t wait. If you… Read More A holiday to Italy

This month has got a bit of an interactive AGILE theme to it. We’re very happy to welcome @ashleymoran from Sheffield who’ll be hosting a session on Refactoring Ruby. Then I’ll be taking you all through a demo of TDD in .NET. These are both interactive sessions, Ashley will be pairing with members of the… Read More GeekUp Nottingham – September

I think this was the start of lap 5 (half marathon)