Reality Loop

March 30, 2010
Classifying BDD Tools (Unit-Test-Driven vs. Acceptance Test Driven) and a bit of BDD history

BDD (Behavior Driven Developement) seems to gain momentum lately. BDD is hard to grasp, because it is more than a development methodology (unlike TDD) and there are currently very different ideas what it really means. To make matters worse ther...
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March 29, 2010
EntityFramework in Action: Great book, but the concerns remain

I did a review for Manning for the upcoming title "Microsoft Entity Framework in Action". This is a thorough book about the EntityFramework v4. It not only discusses the EntityFramework but also gives some guidelines how to build applications w...
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March 17, 2010
Parkinson's Laws

I only recently stumbled over Parkinsons Laws, even though I think in the IT business we are constantly confronted with them: Parkinson's Law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Who has not seen self fulfilling...
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March 16, 2010
.Net Annoyance: Define |DataDirectory| for Connection Strings

Update 20100326: For an acceptable workaround see at the bottom. One thing where I think common practice in .Net is behind Java is the idea of using an embedded database for integration tests. Sql Server Express Edition has the nice feat...
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March 12, 2010
BDD Breakfast in Zürich

Next Tuesday (16.3.2010) my employer TechTalk is arranging a breakfast in the Technopark in Zürich. Christian and I will hold a technical talk about Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and also present examples with SpecFlow. The event starts a...
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