a Bahá'í, software engineer, and nature lover in Austin, Texas, USA
Problem: how do you use Entity Framework, in database-first mode, when following the dependency injection development patterns?
Answer: take advantage of partial classes and manually create the interface. The following notes are just a sketch without full details.
Hypothesis: at the beginning of their careers (and perhaps well into them), most software developers think written/verbal language skills are of little importance to their field. To the contrary: as with most science and engineering fields, where language arts and communications classes are seen as secondary at best, the truth is that communication skills are critical to success. Being “coherent” means that one is able to express himself in clear terms, logically and consistently. This ability is essential in both code and “regular” language.
Like many, when I first encountered the term “agile software development,” I thought it was an excuse for a cowboy culture: low planning, low documentation, run as fast as you can and assume that each person’s brilliance will take care of everything. Since it came up in the context of a very large client asking us about our methodology (“what’s a software development methodology?” I asked myself), I thought I should dig into a little more. Integrating Agile Development in the Real World, by Peter Schuh, quickly showed me it is not that simple. Agile development is, in fact, all about fostering a systematic, right-sized, just-in-time development process. For me, being “agile” means embracing change instead of being locked into preconceived notions (requirements). But don’t throw everything out the window either.
Executable tests are the best form of requirements documentation. They improve quality through early discovery of bugs and by fostering a more detailed “what-if” analysis: what if we have this input X? What if the user does Y?
Configuring a WCF service across security boundaries can be a tricky business,
or so I learned recently. Testing went well, but the move to production failed
for a WCF client/server scenario, with the client application encountering an
error: SOAP security negotiation with '<myEndpointAddress>' for target
'<myEndpointAddress>' failed. See inner exception for more details. Inner
exception: The Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI) negotiation failed.
Follow-up to Building a Test Script Environment with C# and IronRuby, pt 1, wherein we change emphasis from coding tests in Ruby to writing them in English (Gherkin) with the help of SpecFlow.
After that October post, I managed to construct a full system/regression test suite for a key data-management application, using the combination of Ruby and C# as described. My team has been able to go through several cycles of…
A co-worker overheard the comment that “agile [software development] is not always a good fit for introverts,” or something along those lines, while listening to a webinar on agile testing. On the surface, it is hard to deny that claim. Right there in the Agile Manifesto we have two obvious yellow or even red flags:
Now jumping over to the Principles, we find two more orange flags:
