Gil Zilberfeld - Part 39

Battle of the framework: Testing a Webpart

By Gil ZilberfeldJuly 7, 2010SharePoint, Testing, typemock, Unit tests

Time to see the difference between Moles and Isolator code. Let’s start with the code under test (a webpart): public class NewMessagesCountWebPart : WebPart{ private Label lblNewMessages; protected void CreateChildControls(int i) { CreateChildControls(); } protected override void CreateChildControls() { lblNewMessages = new Label(); lblNewMessages.Text = GetMessageNumberText(); this.Controls.Add(lblNewMessages); base.CreateChildControls(); } private string GetMessageNumberText() { using (SPSite site = new SPSite(“http://sharepoint.typemock.com”)) { using (SPWeb web

Battle of the frameworks: The SharePoint arena

By Gil ZilberfeldJune 29, 2010Presentations, SharePoint, TDD, Tools, typemock, Unit tests

Last week, I gave a presentation at the Israeli SharePoint user group on unit testing SharePoint applications. Slides below. Me closer (lurking in the shadows). As an objective observer, I compared the two and only alternatives for Isolation frameworks for SharePoint: Typemock Isolator and Microsoft Moles. And here’s my objective decision: Isolator wins by a

Presenting at the Israeli SharePoint User Group on June 23rd

By Gil ZilberfeldJune 20, 2010Speaking, TDD, Unit tests

I’ll be presenting (in Hebrew) on unit testing SharePoint apps this Wednesday. More information here.If you’re interested in the topic (SharePoint., unit testing or both), come one, come all.

10%, Take Two

By Gil ZilberfeldMay 24, 2010ALM, Development, Org-Life, TDD, Unit tests

After my last post, I got some feedback, that I didn’t really answer the question in the title. So I’m going to fix that. Roughly speaking, 10% of developers are doing unit testing today (Let’s call them group A). Some 15% have heard or tried (B), and the rest don’t even know it exists (C).

Why do only 10% of developers unit test?

By Gil ZilberfeldMay 11, 20102 commentsBusiness, Development, Software, Unit tests

Running the panel at the Typemock Academy was a great experience for me. (Read: I’ve got loads to learn about running a panel). We wanted to make things interesting, and picked a topic that at its heart not so controversial. But when you dig in, it really exposes a problem: If unit testing has been

Meeting David Anderson

By Gil ZilberfeldMay 8, 2010agile, Communication

I had the pleasure of meeting David Anderson on Tuesday. If you’d like to read more on how it happened, read it in Tal’s words. And since David was at our offices, we discussed how we do Kanban at Typemock and heard lots of suggestions on how we can improve our service process (where Kanban

Speaking at the Typemock Academy, April 27th 2010

By Gil ZilberfeldApril 24, 2010Speaking

It’s been a while since my last post. I’ve been busy preparing for the Typemock Academy this coming week in Oslo, Norway. And that makes me a bit of a hypocrite. You see, I haven’t made time to write this post earlier, because of more important stuff. But telling everyone that I’m going to be

Old dog, new tricks

By Gil ZilberfeldApril 11, 2010Uncategorized

Sometimes I see the wonders of the universe in small things. And I’m not talking about my kids this time. When I try to formulate some text or idea, I usually use Word. One of the skills I’ve adopted, is to put down everything I think on the document first, then edit and re-edit. I

Focus

By Gil ZilberfeldApril 7, 2010Uncategorized

With Scrum certification dividing proponents and rivals, one voice of reason appears: Ron Jeffries tries to focus the discussion back on fighting bad software, with or without certifications. Mostly without. I want to take this up a notch. We want good software that makes good business sense. And this goes well with Uncle Bob’s blog

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