Monthly Archives: February 2010

Unique Keys versus IDs in Web Applications

Posted on February 25, 2010 by Chris Missal

An ID is a fine way to uniquely identify an object, the common usage is also very user un-friendly. A while back I was watching a presentation by Jeffrey Palermo on Community For MVC.Net, then later at a live presentation … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Practices, Development | 9 Comments

Unit Testing Simple ASP.NET MVC Controllers

Posted on February 5, 2010 by Chris Missal

I have created enough simple projects using ASP.NET MVC with unit tests to notice a very helpful pattern. The following is a sample of a test fixture using RhinoMocks and NUnit to test a controller. 1: [TestFixture] 2: public class … Continue reading →

Posted in ASP.NET MVC, Development, DRY, Moq, NUnit, RhinoMocks | 6 Comments

How I Approach a Defect

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Chris Missal

Lately I’ve been tracking some of the steps I go through in a given day or week. I was fixing a bug the other day when I decided that I should write down all the mental notes I refer to … Continue reading →

Posted in Best Practices, Continuous Improvement, Development, Testing | 2 Comments