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If you haven’t already heard, Jamie released the 1.0 version of TestDriven.Net (formerly the NUnitAddin). If you are doing .Net development and haven’t been using this tool, then you might as well start coding using Notepad and the command line compiler, since you obviously like to do things the hard way.
Oh, you say you never heard of NUnit and furthermore you have no idea why you would need a plugin for it? Well, if you have done more than one real world application, then you probably created some sort of test harness so that you can execute your business logic without having to go thru the User Interface (and hopefully you got all that code in its own dll, and separate from your UI) and we call that unit testing. NUnit is just a common unit testing framework for all .Net languages, and makes it a lot easier to create and execute your unit tests (through either batch or via a Unit Testing UI). What TestDriven.Net gives you is the ability to run and debug your tests via a right click on the test case method (well it does a bit more than that, but if you are new to NUnit this tool is a great way to help force yourself to write test cases). And since you are interested in Test Driven Development (well that is what they call this test case driven style) do yourself a favor and buy the book Test Driven Development in Microsoft.Net.
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About donxml
I’m an independent consultant, specializing in .Net solutions architecture, based out of New Jersey who also doubles as an evangelist for XML, Domain Driven Design, enterprise architecture and .Net. I do not work for Microsoft, the W3C or any other big company that you may know of (at least not yet). I’ve been an indie for over ten years, and although I’ve been tempted a couple times to take a job with companies like Microsoft, I’ve haven’t found something better than my current situation. I work mostly with the large pharmaceuticals that are based here in New Jersey, and usually find myself on long term contracts. Definitely not the prototypical indie consultant, but it lets me dedicate time to my non-income generating activities like the developer community stuff, plus financing open source projects like XPathmania and MVP-XML. If you would like to talk to me about doing some contract work, just contact me via the contact page. My rates vary widely, depending on lots of different variables, but mostly distance from Jersey, and type of work. Plus, I’ve been known to donate some of my code for various projects.