I recently help set up a CI (Continuous Integration) environment using CC.NET (Cruise Control.NET) at a client that I’m at. We’re in the process of implementing TFS (Team Foundation Server) but until some red tape is cleared we’re still stuck on VSS (Visual Source Safe). While setting up the environment we were given a test VSS account to work with until everything worked as expected. Well the user they gave me had a blank password. Example – User: ccnet Pass: (no password) The visual source safe source control block looked like this: <sourcecontrol...
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I’m not going to lie, I’m a NUnit guy. I’ve used it for years. But just recently I’ve decided to start using MSTest. I run Team Suite and I’ve been using it for some basic integration and functional tests, but not full on TDD. Well this weekend I embarked on a task that utilizes full on TDD and I decided to make the jump and try to do it with MS Test. So the first thing I had to do was reference and import Rhino Mocks. I then ran the test real quick (I had a test that did not depend on mocks yet) to make sure nothing in the import broke it (it shouldn’t,...
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As developers we’re constantly inundated with requests like this …. Can you add a button that does does ________ On this screen _________ I need to have a chart of ________ displaying data … I need a report that shows me _________ Can we add _______ to this page? It shouldn’t be too hard to add this, its just a field on the screen …. (then they explain what its supposed to do)… (classic scope creep) Prioritization The order in which a developer prioritizes items in their “todo” list is often determined by the urgency placed on them by...
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