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Jamie Cansdale

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• TestDriven.Net 2.22 RTM - What’s New?

  Posted: 18 Jun 2009 at 14:19 by Jamie Cansdale

  I'm happy to report that TestDriven.NET 2.0 RTM has cleared the launch pad! It has been a while since the previous RTM version, so here is a quick recap of what’s new: NUnit 2.5 TestDriven.Net now includes the production release of NUnit 2.5. This is the recommended version of NUnit if you’re using .NET 2.0 or above. To ensure maximum compatibility with .NET 1.x and legacy NUnit extensions, the last releases of NUnit 2.2 & 2.4 are also included.

• TestDriven.Net 2.22: Support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1

  Posted: 03 Jun 2009 at 17:55 by Jamie Cansdale

  I’ve just uploaded a new version of TestDriven.Net (2.22 RTM) which is compatible with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1. Unfortunately this support is somewhat limited because command bar extensibility has been disabled in VS 2010 Beta 1. All is not lost however because the commands still work when executed using a shortcut key. This is how many power users invoke TestDriven.Net already and can make for even less friction when executing your tests.

• TestDriven.Net 2.21: Now includes NUnit 2.5 RC

  Posted: 30 Apr 2009 at 16:05 by Jamie Cansdale

  Support for NUnit 2.5 RC A couple of days ago, Charlie Poole announced that the first NUnit 2.5 release candidate is now uploaded. I’ve hurried to get a new version of TestDriven.Net with support for this version ready. I’m happy to announce that TestDriven.Net 2.21 Beta (which includes NUnit 2.5 RC) is now available for download. This is a major NUnit release with lots of new features. Here is the list that was posted on the NUnit mailing list: Parameterized (data-driven) tests are supported,

• TestDriven.Net 2.20: Improved NCover Integration

  Posted: 21 Apr 2009 at 15:01 by Jamie Cansdale

  In the latest release of TestDriven.Net, you’ll find much improved integration with all versions of NCover: Support for 64-bit Windows ‘Test With > Coverage’ now works on 64-bit versions of Windows. In previous versions this could be made to work by compiling your test project for x86. The new version will automatically execute your tests in a 32-bit process if a 64-bit version of NCover can’t be found. (There is similar 64-bit Windows support for dotTrace and Team Coverage)

• Moq.me 3.0 RTM

  Posted: 07 Mar 2009 at 11:11 by Jamie Cansdale

  Congratulations Kzu on the release of Moq 3.0 RTM! You can get it here http://moq.me/ (I love the domain name). There’s a fascinating back and forth between Ayende and Daniel (kzu) where they discuss different ways to use mock frameworks. Ayende (who developed Rhino Mocks) is more in favor of interaction testing than Daniel who is a state/classic TDDer. Recently I’ve been trying to separate my tests into unit tests, interaction tests and integration tests. For interaction testing I’ve been using

• TestDriven.Net 2.19: Release Notes

  Posted: 09 Feb 2009 at 17:10 by Jamie Cansdale

  Which Test Runner? The latest version of TestDriven.Net will display the name of the test runner used in the test results summary. If the target project doesn’t reference a known test framework assembly, TestDriven.Net will use the ‘Ad hoc’ test runner to quickly execute the target method. You can see the above method has been executed using the ‘Ad hoc’ test runner. If this happens when targeting real unit test, the chances are a test runner to handle the target test type or version hasn’t be

• Improved support for MbUnit, xUnit and Gallio

  Posted: 03 Dec 2008 at 19:58

  The main focus of the TestDriven.Net 2.18 release has been to improve support for test runner plug-ins in general (not just NUnit). If you’re using xUnit, MbUnit or Gallio – I recommend you upgrade to this version. Automatic support for 64-bit machines The registry layout on 64-bit machines is plain

• TestDriven.Net Options Pane

  Posted: 03 Dec 2008 at 12:26

  In the latest version of TestDriven.Net you will find a new options pane. The options are as follows: Hide trace/debug output when running all tests in project/solution In the past this setting has always been hardwired to true. It means you can add trace information to a test without cluttering up

• TestDriven.NET 2.18 + NUnit 2.5 Beta

  Posted: 02 Dec 2008 at 22:15

  I’ve just uploaded a new version of TestDriven.Net with support for NUnit 2.5 Beta. There’s a menagerie of weird and wonderful new attributes to choose from in this point release of NUnit. Ben Hall has written a good summary of the Alpha version and I’m sure Charlie Poole will be blogging about the

• Microsoft F# and TestDriven.Net 2.16

  Posted: 10 Oct 2008 at 11:42 by Jamie Cansdale

  Now that F# is being officially productized, I thought it was time to make it a first class citizen inside TestDriven.Net. When learning a new language I like to experiment by writing ad-hoc tests and viewing my code inside .NET Reflector. My initial focus has been getting 'Go To Reflector' and the

• Hello, F#!

  Posted: 09 Oct 2008 at 18:41 by Jamie Cansdale

    This is a quick post to break my writers block. download

• Silverlight NUnit Projects

  Posted: 01 May 2008 at 20:34 by Jamie Cansdale

  I've been doing some experiments to find out if it's possible to execute NUnit on a Silverlight project. I knew that Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend both host Silverlight for use in the designer window. It turns out that rather than host a separate instance of the CoreCLR, the designer simpl

• TestDriven.Net 2.13: Support for NUnit 2.4.7

  Posted: 28 Apr 2008 at 15:01 by Jamie Cansdale

  The latest release of TestDriven.Net is now compiled against NUnit 2.4.7. This version of NUnit includes Andreas Schlapsi's popular RowTest extension. The RowTest attributes have been moved to the 'nunit.framework.extensions' assembly (which you can find here: \Program Files\TestDriven.NET 2.0\NUnit

• TestDriven.Net 2.13: Support for Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1

  Posted: 25 Apr 2008 at 00:44 by Jamie Cansdale

  I've just uploaded a new version of TestDriven.Net with support for Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1. Microsoft have certainly kept me on my toes as there have been lots of changes since Silverlight 1.1. I'm sorry it has taken a while! At the moment you're limited to running individual public methods (ad-hoc

• TestDriven.Net 2.11: Parameterized NUnit Tests

  Posted: 17 Dec 2007 at 09:41 by Jamie Cansdale

  TestDriven.Net has always supported parameterized test methods when used with the MbUnit testing framework. When using MbUnit, it is common for a single test method to execute multiple tests with different parameter inputs. The most famous of these test types is the MbUnit RowTest. Until now there h

• TestDriven.Net 2.10: 'Go To Reflector' now supports generics

  Posted: 16 Dec 2007 at 13:51 by Jamie Cansdale

  Over the past year the 'Go To Reflector' command has become a first class citizen inside TestDriven.Net. You will find the 'Go To Reflector' button on many different context menus inside Visual Studio. The ones I use most often during development are the 'Code Context' and 'Project Reference' menus.

• TestDriven.Net 2.10: Smart Build

  Posted: 02 Dec 2007 at 21:59 by Jamie Cansdale

  There are a number of new features in TestDriven.Net 2.10 that I want to highlight (apart from the VS 2008 crash workaround). The one I'm going to focus on here is subtle, but significant I believe - especially for people working with large solutions. Smart build is a new optimization that allows yo

• VS 2008 crashes on startup when 'Code Analysis Tools' feature is not installed

  Posted: 29 Nov 2007 at 07:25 by Jamie Cansdale

  Now that Visual Studio 2008 RTM is out I have started getting reports of Visual Studio crashing on startup when TestDriven.Net is installed. I was pretty dismayed as TestDriven.Net has included Orcas support since January of this year and this support has been pretty well tested. I certainly wasn't

• NCover 2.0.2 + TestDriven.Net 2.9 on 64-bit Windows

  Posted: 10 Oct 2007 at 21:36 by Jamie Cansdale

  Peter Waldschmidt of NCover fame has recently pulled together a team of developers under a new company called Gnoso. They have been working in conjunction with Grant Drake on enhanced versions of NCover and NCoverExplorer (now combined into a single tool suite). These have been in development for ma

• NCoverExplorer... v1.4.0

  Posted: 10 Oct 2007 at 19:37 by Jamie Cansdale

  Syndicated from Kiwidude's Geek Spot I've had this "quietly available" on the download page for a few weeks to gain feedback on any issues and with no known issues outstanding it seems appropriate to more publicly announce it. A big change in NCoverExplorer 1.4.0 is that it is no longer pu