Wow – June 24th was the last entry! First of all I need to apologize for my bad blogging; I have no other excuse except for the volume of work AT work. Sure I could have re-prioritized and it may have made a difference, but I don’t think my employer would have been very pleased.
So, New England Code Camp, Microsoft Offices, Waltham, MA – full information can be found at http://www.thedevcommunity.org/Events/PresentationList.aspx?id=13. Today I am giving two presentations:
Using Entity Framework’s New POCO Features: Part 2 (Unit Testing)
Level: Intermediate
Starts: Oct 17 2009 2:50 PM
Ends: Sep 17 2009 4:05 PM
Room: MPR A
Speaker: James Phillips
In many cases Unit Testing is considered a chore rather than another development task and often ends up being the last task in a development cycle. More often than not, the sheer work involved in preparing unit tests for existing code can lead to the production of Integration Tests rather than true Unit Tests. Where a unit of code that is under test relies on an external resource, such as a Database or Configuration file, the dependency can lead to testing of the underlying mechanism as well as the unit being tested. This was especially true with Entity Framework 1.0 shipped with .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. With the advent of .NET Framework 4.0, the Entity Framework has advanced in favor of better Unit Testing with the use of POCO and the ability to create interfaces based on IObjectSet. This presentation will cover the examples that can lead to true Unit Testing as opposed to Integration Testing and provide valuable feedback metrics such as code coverage and automated build time reporting of results.
SCRUM and TFS
Level: Introductory
Starts: Oct 17 2009 4:10 PM
Ends: Sep 17 2009 5:25 PM
Room: Rhode Island
Speaker: James Phillips
SCRUM has grown in popularity and acceptance by many companies over the world with numbers of registered SCRUM Masters reaching 51,955 (11 March 2009 – Jeff Sutherland). Although SCRUM does not stipulate what tools to use to produce the necessary artifacts, Microsoft Team Foundation System provides a number of features via TFS Explorer that facilitate capturing the artifacts of SCRUM and is a useful tool for any SCRUM Master, Team and Product Owner. This presentation will highlight the SCRUM framework and show you practical use of TFS and other tools that facilitate the ceremonies and artifacts of SCRUM.
The slides and code are available for download here:
EF_POCO_And_UnitTesting_slides.zip”
EF_POCO_And_UnitTesting_code.zip
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