TestDriven.NET by Jamie Cansdale

As blog entries fly past, I often find myself wanting to mark them for future reference.  When I first started blogging I used to copy them verbatum into my blog.  I used my blog as a kind of online scrap book.  There is so much activity here, I feel it would be a bit antisocial to do that.  I'm left loosing all of the interesting entries I don't have time to comment on.

Breaman has started a project on SourceForge to support unit testing on the .NET Compact Framework. I'm currently working to support multiple testing frameworks and platforms with NUnitAddin. In order to support Mono and Rotor I’ve been working on a test runner that relies on only the most basic .NET Framework assemblies. I imagine the .NET Compact Framework will include System.Net and System.Xml? If so, adding support for Breaman's NCFUnit would seem achievable. Is this something anyone would like to see?

For a (hopefully) limited time only, shares in NUnitAddin are selling for $0.00!  I probably shouldn't be telling you this, but if you want some free stock you can pick it up here.  You never know, one day it might be worth something.

If anyone would like to show their support for NUnitAddin, I'm now listed on BlogShares.  BlogShares is a for fun trading of weblogs.  Weblogs are valued on incoming links and traders investment in the virtual stock.  Kind of like the Google ranking system with a twist.  For some reason I would be able to buy MovableType shares, but not DotNetCentric ones.  Is this because Ingo Rammer isn't signed up, or some other reason?  Also last time I looked, the stats for NUnitAddin haven't appeared and I wasn't able to buy.  Have they disallowed insider trading? Anyway, time to buy buy buy...  ;o)

I haven't posted any new builds of NUnitAddin for a while.  The reason is because I've been working on a version that supports Rotor, Mono and multiple versions of the .NET Framework.  It has been coming on well, but not quite ready for release.  It is fun being able to test snippets of code with Mono from the safety of Visual Studio.NET. ;o)  I must say I'm very impressed with the Mono runtime's startup speed (especially when compared to Rotor).

If anyone has been having difficulty with the 'Debug Tests' functionality, there's a much more stable version up with build 92.  Go to the 'Tools' menu and 'Debug Tests'.  This will start a new test process with the debugger attached.  You can then set breakpoints, run tests and even compile new tests (which feels strange with the debugger still attached).  You won't be able to compile if the process has stopped on a breakpoint (the files will be locked).  It's not quite Edit & Continue, but if feels pretty close.  Let me know if you have any problems.

After reading the following entry in Dejan's weblog, I decided to see it if what he suggests is possible using NUnitAddin.

From Jeff Key's .net blog
Using Explorer to get to physical files in the GAC