By Euricom on
4/26/2009 10:57 PM
The first step on the road to acceptance testing is probably the hardest: getting control over the UI from within a standard TestMethod. It means opening up the UI code to external calls, something you typically don’t want to do, so most UI frameworks are not built with this purpose in mind.
The way we chose to start our UI test framework is to open up access to the controls on the forms directly. We thought this would be a better choice than using Reflection or sending click and key events, because, as our test runs in the same thread as the UI, we do not need to add delays anywhere, nor do we need to worry about changes in layout of the form.
By Nick Verschueren, .Net Solutions Architect
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By Euricom on
4/23/2009 3:26 PM
During this presentation Euricom will show a KBC project that uses our Software Factory and demonstrate how it adds value to any software development project.
By Stijn Menu, Business Development Manager
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By Euricom on
4/19/2009 11:27 PM
One of the most difficult things in any large maintenance project is making sure that by fixing bugs or adding functionality you don’t break things in the application in places you didn’t expect. This is especially difficult when extending or replacing core components. Unit testing is supposed to help you avoid this, but in the bad old days, when men were men and C# was the new frontier, not all systems were developed with testing in mind. By Nick Verschueren, .Net Solutions Architect
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By Euricom on
4/16/2009 9:30 AM
Just the other day, I had to perform a large text transformation on a database script. I had to rewrite a couple of hundred SQL statements ...
By David Stroobants, .Net Solutions Architect
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By Euricom on
4/15/2009 7:34 PM
A few weeks ago, I started working on a new project for a customer. When setting up my development environment, I installed the PowerCommands add-in for Visual Studio. No problem so far, the installation went well, so I started Visual Studio 2008 and created a new project.
By Kurt Torfs, .Net Solutions Architect
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By Euricom on
4/15/2009 7:21 PM
When a CI build or full build has code coverage enabled, you could get some build warnings in the build log. These warnings won't break the build, but they do make life harder when someone would want to review the buildlog.
By Kurt Torfs, .Net Solutions Architect
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By Euricom on
4/14/2009 2:42 PM
Most of the time, source control in Visual Studio Team System is pretty straight forward. But then, somebody leaves the project and left with some files still checked out ...
By David Stroobants, .Net Solutions Architect
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By Euricom on
4/13/2009 10:50 PM
To be honest I was somewhat underwhelmed by the content of Techdays’09. A number of speakers talked –again– about RAD, databinding, Entity Framework, etc… Nothing really new here, getting data from a datasource all the way up to any kind of rich client is a pain. All the plumbing, like CRUD operations and validation, is usually completely left up to the developer.
So I was not very hopeful that there would be anything exciting or new in this space at MIX09, which started in Las Vegas just days after Techdays. In fact there was: Microsoft Rich Internet Application Services or RIA Services for short.
By Nick Verschueren, .Net Solutions Architect
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By Euricom on
4/10/2009 1:51 PM
Most people in IT, especially the Microsoft oriented side of it, know the potential of SharePoint. It’s clear that this product is on the rise and demand for it from customers is at an all-time high and rising. One of the reasons is what I described in an earlier post, the fact that almost anybody can use it without too much trouble. This includes business people or even customers. This is also the number one pitfall of SharePoint. Because it’s so easy to use and has so much features out-of-the-box, in many cases it’s treated as a plug-and-play application. You have IT install it and then release it too the crowd who can “play” with it as much as they want. Wrong … except if you like chaos.
By Ronny Gabriels, Functional Analyst and ex-.net Solution Architect
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By Euricom on
4/7/2009 8:54 AM
When you ask people in IT why projects fail so often, the answers include at least things like “the wrong methodology was used”, “business people constantly change their mind”, “the (project) management lives in fairy-tale land”, etc. What it all boils down to however is communication. It’s true that business/project management and IT speak a different language. But what can you do about it? What do you do when two groups of people have to work together? Right, you search for common ground.
By Ronny Gabriels, Functional Analyst and ex-.net Solution Architect
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