Being Cellfish

Stuff I wished I've found in some blog (and sometimes did)

Getting code coverage in visual studio 2010 when using xUnit.net

Recently I set up a project where i wanted to use xUnit.net as a unit test framework and I also...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 05/22/2010

Team dojo 12

Today we continued where the last dojo ended. Since last time we've created a small backlog with...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 05/20/2010

Beware of Parkinson's law

Parkinson's law, if you have not heard it before, states that Work expands so as to fill the time...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 05/18/2010

Malevich the code review tool - part 2

Now that my team have used Malevich for little over a month I thought it was time for an update. On...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 05/16/2010

Can your code handle a räksmörgås?

Räksmörgås is Swedish for prawn sandwich and is often used when testing computer systems since it...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 05/14/2010

Scrum or Kanban?

One interesting thing I've heard over the last years (and again the other day) is that a lot of...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 05/12/2010

Definition of a failed sprint

Recently there was a discussion on an internal mailing list about when a sprint was was considered a...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 05/10/2010

Team Dojo 11

This time we decided to start a little larger project that we will work on over several dojos. This...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 04/22/2010

7 tips for faster SQL queries (are really just 5)

I like when people make lists of things and decide on how many things they want in the list before...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 04/08/2010

Comment Driven Development

It took a little more than a year for CDD to catch on... Or actually it's a new variant of CDD but...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 04/01/2010

Malevich the code review tool

Malevich is a code review tool that more and more teams within has started to use for code reviews....

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 03/29/2010

Handling a lot of email efficiently

People love sending email at Microsoft. So you need a good strategy to handle it. At work I use a...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 03/23/2010

Will code bubbles be the next development UI?

Look at this video. I think it is a great idea. Too bad it apparently only work for Java. Will be...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 03/21/2010

Improving meetings with ROTI

There are two things people seam to love at Microsoft; Meetings and email. The latter needs a quick...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 03/19/2010

Should a professional developer always use TDD?

The answer is no - a professional developer should always use BDD. No seriously. I read this today...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 03/17/2010

Why go to a coding dojo?

I've previously mentioned what a coding dojo is but never really covered why you should go. I wish I...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 03/12/2010

Yet another post about mocking

I would like to apologize for this post. There is nothing new here. And I'm going to just refer you...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 03/10/2010

Using extension methods to seperate contexts in your DSL

While using properties to create a DSL does not feel like news to me, I read something that felt...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 03/03/2010

Why do TDD when it slows you down?

In my experience a lot of teams that wants to start using test driven development did not write a...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 03/01/2010

Working in war teams is great

One thing that came up in the retrospectives as a good thing a few times in my previous team was...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 02/26/2010

Squeezing performance out of memcmp usage

When I wrote this the other day it made me think of another thing involving the memcmp function and...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 02/24/2010

Considering future performance in your database

Ten years ago I worked on a project where we did a lot of fancy things with a number of databases. I...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 02/22/2010

A new unit test framework for C++

Today I learned about something I did not expected. A new unit test framework for C++ called Igloo....

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 02/19/2010

Things you don't want to do with properties in C#

I was working with some code a couple of weeks ago and I stumbled over this "interesting"...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 02/12/2010

Using C# properties to create a domain specific language

So this is nothing new really. People have been creating DSLs using methods and properties for quite...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 02/10/2010

Taking responsibility for failure

So the thing I wrote the other day made me think about another thing. Toyota is doing what they...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 02/06/2010

On Toyota's recent recall of cars

So the company who gave us lean is recalling a lot of cars because of break problems. I don't think...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 02/04/2010

Words, words, words

So I've mentioned this topic before; choosing the right words to send the message you want. But this...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 02/02/2010

Using Smilies to Reduce Story Cycle Time

The title I'm using was the title of an email I received on one internal mailing list. It was about...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 01/31/2010

Team coding dojo 9

This time we decided to go back to the basics. Simple straight forward TDD using a really simple...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 01/21/2010

Fun Driven Development and Result Driven Development

I decided to add a few double Ds to my old list. First up is FDD as in Fun Driven Development. FDD...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 01/18/2010

Handling different versions of the database

The only way to handle database changes I've used before was either a number of SQL scripts which...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 01/10/2010

Results of a simple TDD experiment

Well, I wish it was my own report this time but it isn't. Instead I'd just link to this little...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 01/06/2010

Mocking framework comparison

As you may know I think mocks should be used quite carefully. But as I've pointed out before I think...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 01/03/2010

2009 statistics

Statistics are fun and can be used to prove almost anything... So let's take a look at the...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 01/01/2010

Christmas 2009

For easier reference, here are the 2009 advent calendar links: What problem and what do we start...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 12/25/2009

The 2009 Advent Calendar Wrap Up

So I hope I showed you a way to BDD/TDD a thread safe solution without slow pesky tests that needs a...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 12/25/2009

Final code version for 2009 Advent Calendar

This is the final version of all code created in the 2009 Advent Calendar: 1: public class...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 12/25/2009

2009 Advent Calendar December 24th

As I mentioned yesterday we now don't have any tests for the MutexWrapper which is a thin wrapper...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 12/24/2009

2009 Advent Calendar December 23rd

And the last test refactored to remove the slow tests: 1: public class Given_a_locked_MutexLock 2: {...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 12/23/2009

2009 Advent Calendar December 22nd

And today we refactor yet another test that is potentially slow when failing (because of the...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 12/22/2009

2009 Advent Calendar December 21st

The change we did yesterday makes it possible to remove the use of helper threads and timeouts for...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 12/21/2009

2009 Advent Calendar December 20th

But wait! What happened yesterday? We added some significant functionality; hiding the fact that...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 12/20/2009

2009 Advent Calendar December 19th

So far so good but there is one more thing I want the MutexLock to do. The Mutex object may throw an...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 12/19/2009

2009 Advent Calendar December 18th

Yet another passing test to make sure our MutexLock works as expected: 1: public class...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 12/18/2009

2009 Advent Calendar December 17th

Since we already have an implementation for the MutexLock I want to add another passing test: 1:...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 12/17/2009

2009 Advent Calendar December 16th

So far I'm pretty pleased with how the ImportantObject is protected by the ImportantProvider but...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 12/16/2009

2009 Advent Calendar December 15th

So instead of the generic for the lock we had yesterday we can add a default constructor for...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 12/15/2009

2009 Advent Calendar December 14th

But if we're using generics; why not do it for the lock too: 1: public class...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 12/14/2009

2009 Advent Calendar December 13th

One problem I see with how ImportantProvider turned out yesterday is that I have to give it the...

Author: Emil Gustafsson Date: 12/13/2009

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