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Thanks to everyone who attended my session at VBug Newcastle last night, hope you enjoyed. As I mentioned in my session, to celebrate my talking at VBug, Microsoft chose to release the Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR R2 yesterday. If you are using DataDude you do need to get this installed, it addresses many know issues. Slides virtually identical to yesterdays, as used at SQLBits, are on the Black Marble site ...

If you are in Newcastle on the evening of the 22nd I will be speaking at Vbug on Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition. Hope to see you there.

Next months Agile Yorkshire meeting is on the 13th May where Ralph Williams will be talking about Exploratory Testing, the session outline sound interesting.

Thanks to everyone who was able to attend the Alt.net ‘In the North’ conference today; and also to our sponsors. The event could not happened without you all. As promised here is the list of blogs, books etc. we had on the whiteboard. **Books **Bridging the Communication Gap: Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing Gojko Adzic User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (Addison Wesley Signature Series) by Mike Cohn Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn Crystal Clear: A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams by Alistair Cockburn Domain-driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design by Bill Buxton ...

Looking forward to seeing everyone at Alt.Net ‘in the North’ over the next two days. If you cannot make the planning session tonight, but are in Bradford later, we will be in the Titus Salt Pub for a few drinks sponsored by SEED software. We will probably be upstairs from about 8:30pm Technorati Tags: altnetuk

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. Looking on the Team Build drop location I could find the data.coverage file in the TestResultsIn folder, but it was 84Kb in size, which I learnt means ‘contains no data’. ...

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. By now I would usually have put my slide stack up for all to download, but in this case, as my session was a book review in essence I would like you to read the original Crystal Clear by Alistair Cockburn. ...

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. Maybe a sensible way to write the tests is using Fit/Fitness to provide the test cases in tabular form? ...

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

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. ...