I "Discover" Ruby
This week at OSCON 2006 I finally learned some Ruby. I've been meaning to do this and learning by listening to Dave Thomas and Mike Clark seemed like it would be much more fun than simply reading a book. Turns out I was right.
Running NUnit Automatically in C# Express
A post on the TDD list asks about running NUnit tests using the Start button in Visual C# Express. In Visual Studio 2003 and 2005, you can set up a project's Debug properties so that an arbitrary external program is executed. By selecting NUnit as that program and providing the correct command-line options, you can cause your tests to be run.
NUnitLite and the GPL
In my last post, about the NUnit team's plans for trying out the Microsoft CodePlex site, I introduced the NUNitLite project. One thing I mentioned was the possibility of its being released under the GPL license. This seems to have gotten more reaction than anything else in the post. I find that a bit disappointing, because I thought there were some other cool things in it. :-)
Be that as it may, I'll try to explain here why my next software project might use GPL and what kind of considerations I'm looking at in making a final choice.
NUnit on Microsoft CodePlex?
A reader asks "What is this about?" pointing to the new Microsoft CodePlex site, which mentions NUnit.
NUnit Extensibility - A High Level View
NUnit originally identified tests in the time-honored way that is still used by most xUnit frameworks. Test classes inherited from the framework's TestCase class. Individual test case methods were identified by their naming pattern.
NUnit 2.2.8 and Coming 2.4 Alpha
I'm afraid I'm pretty erratic about announcing new NUnit releases on the blog. NUnit 2.2.8 was released on April 21, 2006. It has a number of bug fixes to the original 2.2.4 feature base.
Running NUnit Tests from Code
There are some traps involved in running tests from code that are not immediately obvious. This was brought forcibly to my attention when I recently worked on a failing test that someone else had written.
The test in question is internal to NUnit. It attempts to run a single fixture out of a particular assembly, and then verifies that the results are as expected. I'll cover some of the traps encountered in the order that I resolved them.
Untapped Resources of Agility
Last week I attended the first XP Day France, where I had been invited to give the keynote. We don't see many attendees from France at the European XP events, which is too bad, because the quality of the presentations was impressive. I'll be blogging separately about some of the things I learned.
We could all benefit by hearing more from these folks and I think they would also benefit from being part of the larger events. I hope some of the folks I heard speak here in Paris will turn up for XP2006. If language is an issue for some, I'd be glad to help.
Getting NUnit in China
A Chinese programmer (anonymous until he tells me otherwise) recently wrote to ask me for a copy of NUnit 2.2.7. For some reason, it appears that Sourceforge is not accessible in China. This seems odd to me, since it's hardly a political site, but the ways of bureaucracy in any country can be hard to fathom.
NUnit 2.2.7 Release / NUnit Version Numbers
NUnit 2.2.7 has just been released. It fixes some bugs that were filed against the 2.2.6 release, although some of them had been in the code for a while. You can read about what's fixed in this latest release, as well as earlier releases, in the Release Notes.