Christopher Bennage

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• TDD Firestarter in Tampa

  The new year has already gotten away from me and it's only 7 days old. ( Come back, Baby Happy! ) In less than 2 weeks from now, we're going to a have full day of TDD in Tampa, FL. The event is designed so that everyone will find value, whether... Posted Jan 07 2009, 05:12 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with no comments Filed under: TDD, Presentations, Events

• Unit Testing Change Notification

  In WPF work, it is very common to work with implementations of INotifyPropertyChanged . We need support for change notification in order to bind to the UI, and this interface is frequently the best approach. This means I have lots of properties that look... Posted Nov 13 2008, 03:43 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, TDD, C#, lambdas

• Solving Problems with TDD

  I'm giving a talk on TDD at our local UG tonight, and under the influence of some recent posts here on devlicio.us, I just finished reworking my presentation. This post is an outline for the first half of my presentation. The Problems Code has entropy... Posted Nov 06 2008, 03:03 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Design Patterns, Agile, Software Architecture, TDD, ALT.NET, Best Practices, Opinion

• Tricksy Dispatcher & Running Tests in TDD.NET

  Updated 11/07/2008 I recently ran into an interesting situation. I had an ObservableCollection bound to my UI in WPF, and I needed to updated this collection on something other than the UI thread. In other words, I was adding items to a UI-bound collection... Posted Oct 23 2008, 11:42 AM by Christopher Bennage with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, TDD, Threading

• Building a WPF Application: Part 3

  Table of Contents Application Architecture I'm going to back up and bit discuss my overall approach to structuring this WPF project. So far the solution consists of four projects: ChumChase is the actual WPF project. FriendFeed is the official .NET... Posted Aug 20 2008, 12:28 AM by Christopher Bennage with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, Software Architecture, TDD, .NET, C#, ChumChase

• Building a WPF Application: Part 2

  Table of Contents So let's get back to this whole building a WPF application thing. A number of things went down since my last post: I was out sick with a stomach bug for few days, my infant son caught the same bug and subsequently we spent a few... Posted Aug 16 2008, 09:34 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, Software Architecture, TDD, .NET, C#, ChumChase

• Building a WPF Application: Part 1

  Table of Contents I actually meant to say in my last post that I had investigated the API options for FriendFeed and they have a C# wrapper already available here . It's packaged up in a single download with its Python and PHP counterparts. Unfortunately... Posted Jul 22 2008, 07:51 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, Software Architecture, TDD, .NET, C#, ChumChase

• Building a WPF Application: Part 0

  Table of Contents In a rather indirect way, I was inspired by a commenter on one of Scott Hanselman's posts to begin a series that walks through building a WPF application from start to finish. We did this for four different applications in our book... Posted Jul 20 2008, 11:18 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: WPF, Software Architecture, TDD, .NET, ChumChase

• Phil Haack: Research on TDD

  Phil Haack has an interesting post on some research regarding the effectiveness of Test Driven Development. I'm really glad to know that this sort of work is going on, and the results are, er, moderately encouraging to the TDD enthusiast. This topic... Posted Jan 22 2008, 11:52 AM by Christopher Bennage with | with no comments Filed under: TDD

• TDD Example: Querying a Repository

  I'm always a little intimidated when I post code examples. There are a lot of smart (and opinionated) people out there reading blogs. Fear won't get us anywhere though. That said, I'm posting this example and asking for criticism. Here's... Posted Aug 26 2007, 11:07 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: TDD, Featured

• Confidence in your code

  First, I highly recommend Kent Beck's Test Driven Development: By Example . It's an excellent book. I mentioned Beck's book, because it is there that I gained an insight affecting the way I'm writing unit tests. ( So Christopher, you're... Posted Aug 22 2007, 10:53 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Reflection, TDD

• Best Practices, Training, & Tools

  We were recently contracted to assist a development team in employing some Best Practices . Specifically, they were interested in learning Agile. We began by speaking with the developers and managers to try to determine what would benefit them the most... Posted Jun 18 2007, 04:44 PM by Christopher Bennage with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: development tools, Agile, XP, TDD, Musings

• An Introduction to Mocking

  Ayende has published an excellent sceencast introduction to Rhino Mocks . If you are at least somewhat familiar with Test Driven Development (TDD), then I highly recommend that you watch it. Rhino Mocks is a mock object framework for TDD, and in case... Posted Apr 03 2007, 11:43 AM by Christopher Bennage with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: TDD, Mocks