Team Build, Code Coverage and MVC

I have been working on some automated build and testing for a project based on the Microsoft MVC framework. The build was working fine, and test were being run, but I was not seeing any code coverage data in the build summary in Visual Studio for the builds done by the Team Build box. However if I ran the test suite locally on a development PC the coverage data was there....

April 15, 2009 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Holiday is when you catch up…..

I got round to listening to the latest Radio TFS podcast today whist out for a run, Adopting Team System with Steve Borg. If you are looking at adopting TFS or even just critically looking at your development life cycle with a view to improving (irrespective of the tools you use), then this podcast is well worth the time to listen to. It actually covers a lot of the points I was discussing at the Agile Yorkshire user group this week in my session of Crystal Clear....

April 10, 2009 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Testing SharePoint Workflows using TypeMock Isolator (Part 3)

Updated 12 June 2009 - I have been having problems using this technique of Typemock with Sharepoint Workflows, the workflows keep unexpectedly idling as opposed to activating. If you suffer similar problem please check for later posts as to any solutions I find. Now I can test a basic workflow it soon becomes obvious that you could end up with many tests for a single workflow, as a workflow can have any number of criteria that could cause branching to occur....

April 7, 2009 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Visual Studio 2008 DBPRO GDR QFE (wow loads of TLAs there)

At my session at SQLBits IV on Visual Studio 2008 DBPro GDR it was mentioned that there was a major patch just about to be released to address some known issues. Well Brian Harry has provided links to the release of the release candidate of the GDR QFE

April 7, 2009 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Testing SharePoint Workflows using TypeMock Isolator (Part 2)

Updated 12 June 2009 - I have been having problems using this technique of Typemock with Sharepoint Workflows, the workflows keep unexpectedly idling as opposed to activating. If you suffer similar problem please check for later posts as to any solutions I find. After reading Gil’s blog on writing simpler tests I have done some tidying of the code from my previous post. In this version I have extracted the boiler plate code to run the workflow to a static helper method and modified my tests to incorporate Gil’s comments, they are certainly more readable....

April 6, 2009 · 3 min · Richard Fennell