Development

NUnit and TDD – Fail First

Between handling response issues, we’ve continued our NUnit exploration. From what I’ve been reading, it appears that using NUnit without the intention of TDD is like using Visual Studio without enabling Intellisense. Why bother? I started by reading a few articles, such as Getting started with TDD , by Steve Smith. I also read a [...]

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Incorporating NUnit into the Culture

My team is taking a dedicated look at NUnit over the next week or so, in order to figure out how to incorporate it into the culture. I feel sort of guilty spending so much dedicated time on this educational task, because I’m so used to spending my days firefighting, managing, and troubleshooting. But this [...]

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Developers, You Do More Than Code

When it comes to estimating, developers live in an idealistic world. Despite repeated experiences of constant interruptions causing projects to overrun estimates, developers tend to look at subsequent projects with wishful thinking. It’s strange. Most developers associate so much pain with the last minute rush to deadlines, you’d think they’d surely tack time onto their [...]

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Autosave – Is it Too Late to Standardize?

One of Alan Cooper’s arguments in user interface design has been that explicitly asking the user to save a file is a waste of time. I’ve always agreed with that, but I wonder if we’re too late in making autosave the standard. These days, many applications have an autosave feature in addition to an explicit [...]

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