Announcing Beta 2 for CI Factory. The most important new feature is the target FixUpThirdPartyRefs in the brand new Scratch.Lib.xml. I have put some effort into easing the convertion of existing projects. Between Gaston Milano’s CoolCommands and the Third Party ref fixer most projects should be a...

There is a new beta for CI Factory, version 0.8.0.27. There are a lot of new features in this release. The changes are documented here. There are 22 new NAnt tasks, 13 new NAnt functions, 9 new CCNet plugins, and 10 new CI Factory Packages!

This is the final post in my series on OOD class principles and testability. It summarizes how, when followed, the principles relate to the three aspects of testability.

In this post I explorer a domain of smells focused on testability of product code. So there has been this enormous discussion on the Yahoo TDD Group about testability: it was kicked off by Marcus. I used this dialogue as an opportunity to explorer something my gut has been bothering me about.

MbUnit, my favorite xUnit Framework, is easy to extend. This tutorial will cover creating a new type of test fixture attribute and test method attribute.

The next post in a series on testability and design principles. This post discusses the Liskov Substitution Principle and how it relates to Testability.

This post delves into the question: Is designing for testability justified?

This post looks at the relationship Testability has with the Law of Demeter.

So I have been holding on to this DXCore plugin for a while now. I would like to have it a little more polished but it is just a prototype so I guess I should release it. It adds three new metrics to DXCore; Compound Cyclomatic Complexity, Efferent Coupling, and Compound Efferent Coupling....

Gives a list of 9 design characteristics that benefit from testability.

This custom branch of CCNET offers new configuration options to create relationships between project (e.g. not only when projects should build but not build). It also offers the popular feature request of a user force filter. The ccnet project config file can specify users and or groups that are a...

I guess the talk about Doubler got me motivated: I added a new feature. You can now select an entire assembly to create test stub recorders for! This feature can be useful to maintain a mirror assembly of recorders. If the abstracts types in the subject assembly change the doubles will no longer...

So with the release of NCover (1.5.5) I feel that I can release the NCover package for CI Factory. It includes a copy of NCoverExplorer and uses NCoverExplorer Extras. I got a lot of help from Grant Drake to create to this package. This package can be installed in 5 quick steps. It will add code...

We are exploring new ways to build our software at work. I was trying to convey a thought on validating the feasibility of a build process today with the following equation. Number of Change Packages = 8 Hours * 60 Minutes / (Build Time + Preparation Time + Buffer) Filling out the right side ...