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    Working with Mock Behaviors in JustMock

    When you create a mock using Mock.Create<> or Mock.Create there are three Behavior modes available. Each one causes the mock to behave in very different ways. For those of you new to mocking, you may not know at first what each of these behaviors mean
    March 18, 2011 2 min read
  • Productivity

    Different OpenAccess Versions Used in Development Process

    We hear a lot that migrating projects using OpenAccess to a new OpenAccess version is a complicated process. The first decision should be if you want to migrate each of your projects or if you want to stay for some of them with the old OpenAccess version. This post describes how to prepare your project so that an installation of a new OpenAccess version does not break your build or makes it necessary to use the new version in your older projects. The first step is to check-in all necessary runtime and compile time used resources instead of taking them from the...
    March 17, 2011 5 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Automated Testing in the Mile High City - Denver, CO

    Last week Telerik co-sponsored the SQuAD conference in Denver, CO (also known as 'The Mile High City' due to its elevation of 1 mile above sea level). SQuAD is short for the Software Quality Association of Denver - what better place to showcase Telerik's next generation automated testing tools! On Wednesday we hosted an in-depth four hour automation workshop that allowed attendee's to build their own test automation using Telerik's WebUI Test Studio QA Edition. The session was a hit and the feedback, tremendous. Thursday we presented a one hour session on Silverlight Test Automation. This presentation reviewed many of the challenges ...
    March 14, 2011 1 min read
  • Productivity

    Rethinking Agile Methodologies Part II: Scrum, but

    See also: ·         Part I:  How I started to use Scrum In the last post, we looked at how I got into Agile and Scrum. Today we will take a look at how I started to break the rules. After reading the Agile books by Ken Schwaber and obtaining my Certified ScrumMaster credential, I doubled down on Scrum at my start-up since it was working so well.  As things progressed and our business evolved, I started to bump up against the “rules” of Scrum. As I mentioned last week in Part I, the guidance was to only use Scrum locally, not with offshore developers several time zones ahead.  I was also breaking many other “rules”...
    March 14, 2011 3 min read
  • Productivity Testing

    Acceptance Test Driven Development

    Acceptance Test Driven Development represents another step in the pragmatic, cooperative style that was described 10 years ago when a group of 17 software developers gathered at Utah’s Snowbird ski resort in February 2001 and issued the Manifesto for Agile Software Development, with its guiding principle of: “Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.” The Agile Manifesto also includes the principle of: “Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.” Perhaps the developers spent the evening hours around a big fireplace at Snowbird – feeding the flames with ...
    March 09, 2011 3 min read