Monthly Archives: September 2009

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 →

Posted in Agile | 4 Comments

My favorite bug-tracking system

Posted on September 29, 2009 by Jimmy Bogard

I’m of the opinion that a process must demonstrate the need for software, before software is put in place to manage that process.  Bug tracking is a process, but often we jump straight to a software solution for managing/tracking bugs … Continue reading →

Posted in Agile | 17 Comments

Thanks Houston TechFest!

Posted on September 28, 2009 by Jimmy Bogard

This past weekend I gave a talk on one of my favorite topics – UI testing.  In it, I focused almost exclusively on techniques for authoring maintainable UI tests, and how design for testability extends to views, models and controllers … Continue reading →

Posted in ASP.NET MVC | 4 Comments

The case for two-way mapping in AutoMapper

Posted on September 18, 2009 by Jimmy Bogard

I’m getting more and more requests around the area of two-way mapping, meaning you’d do something like: Product –> ProductDTO ProductDTO –> Product Product being an entity, I can’t for the life of me understand why I’d want to dump … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoMapper | 40 Comments

AutoMapper 1.0 RC1 released

Posted on September 15, 2009 by Jimmy Bogard

It’s been quite a long journey with AutoMapper, with the origins written just over a year ago now.  I’ve focused on stability and performance since the 0.3.1 release back in May, and from here to the 1.0 release, I’ll just … Continue reading →

Posted in AutoMapper | 8 Comments

Wither the Repository

Posted on September 11, 2009 by Jimmy Bogard

Looking at the different Repository pattern implementations, one thing really surprised me – how far off these implementations are from the original Fowler definition of the Repository.  Instead, we see a transformation to the examples in the Evans description of … Continue reading →

Posted in Domain-Driven Design | 8 Comments

DDD: Repository Implementation Patterns

Posted on September 3, 2009 by Jimmy Bogard

One of the major structural patterns encountered in DDD (and one of the most argued about) is the Repository pattern.  You’ve created a persistent domain model, and now you need to be able to retrieve these objects from an encapsulated … Continue reading →

Posted in Domain-Driven Design | 14 Comments

Partially closed generic types

Posted on September 1, 2009 by Jimmy Bogard

If you swallow enough of the generic pills, you may run into situations where a not-quite closed and a not-quite open generic type would be nice.  It’s in situations where decisions based on types are prevalent, such as in IoC … Continue reading →

Posted in C# | 3 Comments