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- Unit testing a ASP.NET WebAPI controller
Testing a simple ApiController that gets data Suppose we have the following ASP.NET WebAPI Controller with two Get methods, the first returns the complete list of books and the second returns the book with the requested ID. 14: 15: // GET api/books. 24: var book = _repo.GetBook(id); 25: 26: if (book == null ). 30: 31: return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK, book); 32: }. The Get() method that returns all books is easy enough to test. There are no dependencies on WebAPI bits, all it does is return a enumeration of books. 8: 9: }.
The Problem Solver - Sunday, May 12, 2013 - Requirements and Specifications
The first book I picked up was Mike Cohn’s User Stories Applied , the nearest thing the Agile-set has to a definitive text on requirements. True Requirements runs throughout the book but doesn’t help me compare and contrast. The fact that so many prominent books duck the question of requirements and specification makes me think this is a fairly common issue. 'As I was saying in my last blog, I’m preparing for a talk at Skills Matter entitled: “Business Analyst, Product Manager, Product Owner, Spy!” and so I’ve been giving a lot of thought to requirements. nothing.
Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, April 15, 2013 - Requirements whose job are they anyway?
The talk title is a reference to the John Le Carre book “Tinker Tailor Solider Spy!” , its probably too clever by half and I should just have entitled it “Requirements: Whose job are they anyway?” 'Later this week I’m giving a talk at Skills Matter entitled: “Business Analyst, Product Manager, Product Owner, Spy!” The talk idea was born out of what I see as confusion and land-grabbing in the requirements space, or as I prefer to think of it “the need side” i.e. the side of development which tries to understand what is needed. Undoubtedly some do but I’m far from convinced they all do.
Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, April 15, 2013 - DotNed podcast: Neno Loje on Visual Studio ALM and Team Foundation Service 2012 new features
Links: Neno TFS blog: www.tfsblog.com The WHY book on TFS: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012: Adopting Agile Software Practices: From Backlog to Continuous Feedback The HOW book on TFS: Professional Team Foundation Server 2012 Scrum & TFS: Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) Program by Microsoft and scrum.org Ready to use VM with VS + TFS 2012: [link] Submit and vote for ideas for Visual Studio: [link] A lot of good documentation on MSDN: Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server. Podcast DotNed
The Problem Solver - Thursday, April 4, 2013 - DotNed podcast: Neno Loje on Visual Studio ALM and Team Foundation Service 2012 new features
Links: Neno TFS blog: www.tfsblog.com The WHY book on TFS: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012: Adopting Agile Software Practices: From Backlog to Continuous Feedback The HOW book on TFS: Professional Team Foundation Server 2012 Scrum & TFS: Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) Program by Microsoft and scrum.org Ready to use VM with VS + TFS 2012: [link] Submit and vote for ideas for Visual Studio: [link] A lot of good documentation on MSDN: Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server. Podcast DotNed
The Problem Solver - Thursday, April 4, 2013 - People or the system?
George Orwell, “Charles Dickens” essay in Shooting and Elephant and Other Essays, Penguin Books I am sure I am not alone in exhibiting another of Orwellian trait: Double think. And before anyone rushes to say “Good developers are 10 times (or 28 times) better than average” please read Laurent Bossavit book “Leprechauns of Software Development” where he shows the evidence for this claim doesn’t hold up. “the two view-points are always tenable. The one, how can you improve human nature until you have changed the system? Scrum, XP, Prince2, DSDM, etc.) Kanban, Scrum, etc.
Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - Agile Advice for Aviva (and many other big companies)
Give your team support, send them on training, hire consultants to come and coach, buy them books. There is no long term future for Test Managers, you options are: a) focus on Test and work to improve the Testing Process, specifically Automation; b) focus on management and manage the whole development team; c) disentangle Test from Quality and become get Quality throughout the process Form self-support book study groups: spend an hour, meet for lunch every other week, agree a book, agree a chapter in advance, someone volunteer to summarise it. don’t know of any.
Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - Speaking at PAM - Project & Analysis Management Summit (Poland)
void in every Agile book, blog and Tweet The silence is defining So tell me why, Why do many Agile teams have PMs and BAs? I’ve never been to Poland so when the invitation arrived to speak at the Project and Analysis Management Summit in Cracow it was hard to resist. However, I probably should have trodden more carefully. After a talking it over with the organisers I agreed to give a talk entitled: “Is there a role for Project Managers and Business Analysts on Agile?” For many Project Managers and Business Analysts this is The Big Question. Indeed, their jobs are on the line.
Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, February 18, 2013 - What is Agile?
At first I thought my notes on Xanpan would be similar to my “Agile Reader” mini-book , then I thought Xanpan would be a replacement for the Agile Reader series, now I’m seeing it as a book format collection of writing that goes beyond Agile Reader and includes new material on Xanpan specifically. should stop there, I could carry on but I’d need a book to do this perspective justice - fortunately I wrote just such a book a few years ago: Changing Software Development: Learning to be Agile. What’s happening? The perspectives I see are…. Ask them “Are you Agile?”
Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, January 16, 2013 - Querying RavenDB databases
In my original online example you might have noticed that the books aren't ordered. 5: var books = session.Query (). 7: ToList(); 8: 9: return View(books); 10: }. 5: var books = from book in session.Query (). 7: select book; 8: 9: return View(books.ToList()); 10: }. Just want books from an author starting with “A”? The following view search for books where the title or author starts with the passed string. 5: var books = session.Query (). 8: ToList(); 9: 10: return View( "Index" , books); 11: }. 11: }. 11: }.
The Problem Solver - Monday, December 17, 2012
