Is Microsoft Going Agile? Insights from Scott Guthrie
Scott Guthrie discusses Microsoft’s relationship with Agile. Learn what Microsoft is doing to enable developers to adopt an agile strategy.
Tag: agile
How Do I Refactor my Code in Visual Studio?
These two videos show how to use the refactoring tools in Visual Studio. Video Part 1 Video Part 2
Advanced ASP.NET MVC
Learn how to extend the ASP.NET MVC framework with dependency injection, view engines, action filters, and more. We’ll see how to apply Test Driven Development and write unit tests with mock objects.
Eliminating Static Dependencies
Nature abhors a vacuum. It turns out she also abhors static dependencies (I have my sources). Static dependencies are the modern-day globals, often exposed through classes named “Helper”. I’ve certainly been guilty of overusing static dependencies in the past, with classes like “LoggingHelper”, “SessionHelper”, “DBHelper” and so on. The problem …
Microsoft and ALT.NET – At the crossroads
ALT.NET represents a community of thought leaders with a call to action of improving the status quo of how software is developed in the Microsoft developer ecosystem. ALT.NET encourages very strict adherence to agile practices such as BDD (Behavior Driven Development) and tools that map to those practices fairly closely. …
Good Test, Better Code – From Unit Testing to Behavior-Driven Development
“Testing is design”; “Unit tests are documentation”; “Tests are specifications”. These are sought-after rewards of developer testing practices, but simply writing tests or even writing tests before writing production code doesn’t make these wishes come true. When we take up unit testing, we initially tend to do things a certain …