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I'll be giving a talk on MbUnit at the next ThoughtWorks geek night here in Manchester, UK on the 27th of August . The night will be a double bill, right after me Chris Morris will be leading a workshop designed to find out what you believe quality means in the software you develop. The talk I will give will be a version of the one I gave last year at AgileNorth only updated for the MbUnit v3. The next time I will give this talk will be hopefully DDD towards the end of year , so either vote for me when the time comes or if you can't wait then get your self down to Manchester. Read More...
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MbUnit has achieved a lot in 2 and half years, it was around that time that Peli joined Microsoft and MbUnits future was undecided. Peli wanted to open-source MbUnit but with his new role was unable to do so. I asked Peli and Jamie if I could take this on and the code was released to Tigris and later (seeking SVN rather than the then CVS) it's present home on Google Code. Morten helped out hosting the Wiki and Defect tracker (though these are now also on Google Code). On Phil's suggestion we started a new website (although we lost MbUnit.org we gained MbUnit.com , MbUnit.co.uk and MbUnit.net) and recently added a lot of changes to the site including docs and blog lists etc. What started with a handful of people including myself, Jay and a few others has grown to a core commit group of 12 with a dedicated (and professional writer and editor) docs manager . Thanks to there hardwork and dedication in three years MbUnit has gone through two major releases, a minor release and is in the middle Read More...
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Master Jedi Jeff had an itch in between Gallio coding and over on the Gallio contrib coded up a Instrumentation API using Mono Cecil , very sweet. The contrib section is just something that is not on any channel and we keep to throw out our ideas. As Jeff states in his post if other folks like his ideas then it may get developed further, do check out his post and let him know what you think. Wihin Jeffs post I noticed Jason Bock left a comment and I thought 'I know that name', then it struck me, his written two great books that I own, one on IL and the other on Attributes . I also know Jason from his .NET Languages website and ran into a post from Craig Andera on the site . As Craig states I believe it's a good idea to learn at least one new programming language a year . If nothing else, it keeps me from getting bored. You might think I'd choose Ruby, as that's pretty hot right now (in certain circles). And in truth I'm interested. I've even read some of The Pickaxe Book . But the language Read More...
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I'm rather hooked on Facebook, it's almost myspace meets friends reunited and is all all grown up :) It's a great place to connect with folks and it's really amazing who is on the site. Jamie mentioned it a while back but I have added a facebook group for MbUnit fans here , if your a MbUnit fan and on Facebook be sure to sign up. Read More...
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Opensource is a funny old game, we do it for love (of software) and not love of money. You work when you want and how you want. You get to use technologies and explore ideas that are not constrained by your management\clients. You also get to work with and learn from some of the brightest minds in the industry. You just don't get paid for it, something has to give :) As many of you might (or might not) know I run a OSS project called MbUnit , and its a busy time on the project. We are fixing bugs and adding small features and the 2.4.1 release is shaping up. We are working very hard on shaping up the documentation and website. We also have MbUnit Gallio underway, I'll be talking more about that later in the year. MbUnit has an amazing set of folks working all day and night on it but I'd like to attract more folks to the project, helping to fix bugs, write some cool docs (even cool articles would be appreciated), in a nutshell spare me any time you have. If you think you can, drop me a line Read More...
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Vadim has a post on open development postions at his work place , ulimate software. If you want to work in an Agile enviroment, using MbUnit every day and working along side a core member of the MbUnit team then check it out. Read More...
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My hat off to Jeff Atwood for offering to help fund (matched by Microsoft no less) OSS . Each project has its own costs, often met by the folks on the project (including out of my own pocket) so every single cash donation is a great help of keeping those costs down. I would also like to make sure that folks get there money back so please do pass your vote on MbUnit. A few folks have asked about Frans comment in this post, in particular this. MS has such a strong focus on controlling the market ontop of its own platform, they're totally not interested in changing the mentallity of mort at all. There are numerous examples out there, nunit and ndoc being two of the most well known. Instead of supporting nunit and mbunit, MS rolls their own unittest runner, incompatible with the open source ones, and hires the mbunit main developer. No I have no red pill, Frans is of course talking about Peli. Let's not also forgot that Microsoft also hired James Newkirk, who was one of the orginal NUnit developers. Read More...
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Gerard Meszaros's new book, xunit patterns has been published. It's great to see this book in print, for a long time I was a reader of the wiki site that Gerard used to build up the patterns and I was a tech reviewer on the book (along with folks such as Jeremy Miller , Owen Rodgers (CCnet lead), Cedric Beust (TestNG lead) and a great deal of other industry pros in the field of testing) . It's the first book in my mind that shows an example of MbUnit row testing (page 608/9 and page 614). The book has sadly suffered a type setting issue and as such the MbUnit website address was borked, I have sent an erata onto Gerard but if you do come across this one you then be aware its a known issue. Gerard had the amount of available space to consider when writing the book so its hard to paint an accurate picture of any unit test framwork in a book that covers then all. MbUnit's row test is mentioned along side a parameterized test varation called tabular test, row test could follow the loop driven Read More...
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Ben Hall , a long standing member of the MbUnit team will in the summer be joining Red Gate Software as a test engineer . My heart felt congrats to Ben on landing this role, who I am certain will bring real value to the Red Gate team. Read More...
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MbUnit's Ben Hall was in this years Imagine Cup , reached the UK final and reached an excellant third place. Congrats Ben! Read More...
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Jim (who looks so much like Robin Williams.....sorry Jim but you do :) and James have a short interview on the O'Reilly windows dev center for their Windows Developer Power Tools book. The interview does mention about MbUnit's combinational testing and the book features row and combintional testing. Each section in the book is designed to be a overview to give you a taster of what each tool can do, I hope that folks do want to learn more about each tool featured in the book. I reviewed (along with Phil Hackk) the work Jim wrote for MbUnit, I was asked to write the section but a personal matter prevented that and Jim did some great work in giving us a presence in the book. Yet to make it to the errata but the URL for MbUnit is not longer MbUnit.org and is MbUnit.com instead. I look foward to seeing this book in print!! Read More...
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