Monthly Archives: September 2008

JavaScript block scoping

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

I’m going through JavaScript: The Good Parts (which I highly, highly recommend), and I’m finding I knew next to nothing about JavaScript.  For example, this does not compile in C#: public void TestScope() { if (true) { int i = … Continue reading →

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A TDD investment addendum

Posted on September 23, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

I completely left out one very important tip in my top 10 tips to get a return on your TDD investment: Take advantage of pair-programming. Pair programming is a great teaching device, as it lets two people go back and … Continue reading →

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Ten tips to maximize the return on your TDD investment

Posted on September 22, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

Paul Cowen presented an interesting personal observation of using TDD on the ALT.NET mailing list, under the title “TDD + effort != return“.  The implication being that doing TDD requires extra work during development, extra work in training, extra work … Continue reading →

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Interfaces and isolation

Posted on September 20, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

Roy Osherove has suggested a new name for mocks, fakes, stubs or any test double: Isolation.  True, the myriad of test double names can muddy the language, and Meszaros’ suggested name of “test double” still confuses people that don’t get … Continue reading →

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TDD design trade-offs and junk food

Posted on September 18, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

Tony Rasa recently talked about design trade-offs when doing TDD: When “doing TDD,” we consciously make design trade-offs to favor testability. … we end up with a lot of single-implementation interfaces because of testability concerns and from weaknesses with our … Continue reading →

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Integrating StructureMap and NHibernate with WCF

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

Following many examples I found online for other IoC containers, I borrowed utilized those designs to create a StructureMap instance provider.  One problem we ran into with that design was dealing with NHibernate.  Mainly, there are two types that are … Continue reading →

Posted in NHibernate, StructureMap, WCF | 16 Comments

Some IoC Container guidelines

Posted on September 12, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

So Derick Bailey asked me the other day a few weeks ago to describe how we use our IoC container.  I wouldn’t call it “best practices”, though some of these tips came from the creator of our container of choice, … Continue reading →

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Quality and code coverage

Posted on September 9, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

It’s an age-old question: should our team’s goal be 100% coverage?  A valid question, but one I’ve never much cared about in practice.  The idea is that the team, all practicing TDD, should dutifully measure and add unit tests until … Continue reading →

Posted in TDD, Testing | 5 Comments

On passion

Posted on September 4, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

One of my favorite bloggers, JP Boodhoo, has a little saying he puts at the end of every post: Develop with passion! I’ve only met JP once, and it was quite obvious from that meeting that passion is somewhat of … Continue reading →

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Building arrays in StructureMap 2.5

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Jimmy Bogard

Although it was possible in previous versions of StructureMap, the new fluent interface for StructureMap configuration in version 2.5 allows easy configuration of array type constructor parameters.  For example, consider a simple order processor pipeline: public class OrderPipeline { private … Continue reading →

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