DotNetKicks.com - Stories tagged with Test

NHibernate: Testing The Performance Urban Legend

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:01:10 GMT

I wanted to challenge the dogmatic urban legend passed down from .NET developer to .NET developer since the classic ASP days. That dogma simply states you should always access your database via stored procedure for "performance reasons". Inline SQL is BAAAAAAD. So I fired up Visual Studio, created a class and started writing tests.

Integrate PartCover.Net, Nant and Cruise Control.Net

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 04:14:14 GMT

How to run PartCover with Nant, generate an xml report and integrate the report into CC.Net to get your coverage statistics in your Integration server.

DotNetKicks.com 101

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:16:02 GMT

Why DotNetKicks.com it is the best .NET news source on the web.

DotNetKicks.com 101

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 05:16:02 GMT

Why DotNetKicks.com it is the best .NET news source on the web.

No, you're crazy! (or, the problem with assuming that computer program

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:01:04 GMT

An excellent post on how to think about programming as a profession.

Developer Notes For the ASP.NET MVC Framework

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:01:02 GMT

Review and sample code for the MVC framework. See how your projects and code will look like.

I see you.

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:07:51 GMT

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DotNetKicks.com - Now running on the open source codebase

Sun, 08 Jul 2007 10:12:01 GMT

I have just switched DotNetKicks.com to use the new open source codebase - svn revision 101. The site is now using SubSonic as the DAL. Please kick the tires if you can. Report any bugs to google code site: http://code.google.com/p/dotnetkicks/issues/list

Unit Testing for Performance

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:16:01 GMT

Here's a quick and easy way to incorporate performance testing into your everyday unit tests.

RssBuildsPublisher for CruiseControl.NET

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:31:01 GMT

A robust Rss Publisher for CruiseControl.NET has been built and available for download on CodePlex.

Object Test Bench

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:01:02 GMT

There is a tool in Visual Studio called the Object Test Bench. In this article I present an overview of its features and compare it to the Immediate Window which in my opinion almost always does the job better and faster.

Why ASP.NET Postbacks and Viewstate Considered Harmful

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:01:01 GMT

This is the reason why Why ASP.NET Postbacks and Viewstate Considered Harmful.

NDbUnit - Database Testing

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 12:31:02 GMT

NDbUnit is a .NET library for putting a database into a known state. NDbUnit may be used to increase repeatability in unit tests that interact with a database by ensuring that the database's state is consistent across execution of tests. NDbUnit does this by allowing the unit test to perform an operation on a dataset before or after the execution of a test, thus ensuring a consistent state.

Be sure to put in some default value when testing with Nullable types

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:11:01 GMT

Nullable types are a great feature in .NET 2.0 but even when the code compiles the functional behaviour can turn out to be completely different from what you would expect when comparing and the value is null.

Download new JSON stand-alone library for Microsoft .NET 1.1/2.0

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:41:01 GMT

Michael Schwarz has released the AJAX.NET JSON parser and serialiser as its own component. This is perfect for me and this site as I am currently only using the JSON serialiser from AJAX.NET. I am using the Dojo toolkit as the AJAX library.