Category Archives: Agile

Setting up automatic test runs after compilation in VS2010

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Eric Hexter

I lifted some scripts from the interwebs so that after every compilation in visual studio unit tests are automatically run.  I have been a long supporter of the TestDriven.Net addin and Resharper but I found auto running unit tests to … Continue reading →

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Work In Process (WIP) Limits, Policies, Etc.

Posted on June 14, 2010 by Derick Bailey

I had a great discussion a few of my team members this morning. We were discussion work in process (WIP) limits, policies, and other items that are related to both of those. By the end of the discussion we had … Continue reading →

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Are daily stand-ups necessary?

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

On a recent long project, our team’s commitment to continuous improvement led to some interesting results.  Originally, we started with quite a bit of the Scrum ceremony, such as sprint planning meetings, time-boxed iterations, and daily stand-ups.  However, since we … Continue reading →

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Why I Write Automated Tests For My Code

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Derick Bailey

I started my journey of unit testing my code about 4 years ago… I had played with nunit prior to that, but I never understood the point and would delete my tests after I got them to pass… that was … Continue reading →

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Red/Green/Refactor, For The Right Reasons

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Derick Bailey

First, let me say this: WHAAaa???? something useful occurred on Google Buzz?! :) Ok, now that I’ve got that over with… there was a useful stream of comments over on the extended twitter reply network from one of my tweets … Continue reading →

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I Want Assert.NotYetImplemented(); In .NET Test Frameworks

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Derick Bailey

One of my coworkers recently tweeted this: I do that a lot with c# and nunit. It helps me to figure out where I need to go, what tests are going to be organized where, etc. I certainly don’t expect … Continue reading →

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Failure Is Not An Option, It Is A Requirement.

Posted on February 28, 2010 by Derick Bailey

Of course that statement on it’s own can obviously be shown to be fallacy. When you consider the context of continuous improvement, learning or generally advancing our own capabilities and understanding, though, this statement can be quit liberating. Why? Because … Continue reading →

Also posted in DSL, Kaizenconf, MVC | 4 Comments

Can PDCA Help Us Improve Our Test-First Development Efforts?

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Derick Bailey

I was thinking about target conditions and the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle earlier today when a code related issue that I was having popped into head and decided to meld with the current string of thoughts. The resulting thought was leading … Continue reading →

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Update on using MSDeploy for remote deployments.

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Eric Hexter

This is a follow up to the post http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/hex/archive/2009/11/06/using-msdeploy-to-automate-your-enterprise-application-remote-deployments.aspx   The only trouble I have run into using this approach is that the runCommand does not bubble up error code or exit code from the command being executed on a … Continue reading →

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Bugs, defects and feedback

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Jimmy Bogard

In my last post, I talked about how we like to track bugs, with just pieces of paper.  At lot of the responses were interesting, but I think some came back to the issue of “what is a bug?”  Some … Continue reading →

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