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• Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 3: The AccountController contd.

  This is part 3 in a series of posts on using Behaviour Driven Development to build and test your MVC controllers. The full series is as follows: Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 1: The HomeController Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD Read More... Posted 16 October 2009 15:53 by james.broome | 2 Comments Filed under: .NET, Agile, Testing, BDD, Asp.Net MVC, TDD, MVC, Asp.Net, C#

• The importance of conventions – from Asp.Net MVC to a successful project team

  My colleague Jon George has recently been posting about his experiences of performance tuning our latest web application , built on Asp.Net MVC . His introductory post talks briefly about how we spent a large effort in laying the correct foundations for Read More... Posted 06 October 2009 15:54 by james.broome | 2 Comments Filed under: .NET, Miscellaneous/General, Agile, Asp.Net MVC, MVC, Asp.Net, C#

• Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? (Part 2: Log On and Log Off with the AccountController)

  This is part 2 in a series of posts on using Behaviour Driven Development to build and test your MVC controllers. The full series is as follows: Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 1: The HomeController Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD Read More... Posted 23 September 2009 12:01 by james.broome | 6 Comments Filed under: .NET, Agile, Testing, BDD, Asp.Net MVC, TDD, MVC, Asp.Net, C#

• Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? [Part #1: The HomeController]

  This is part 1 in a series of posts on using Behaviour Driven Development to build and test your MVC controllers. The full series is as follows: Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 1: The HomeController Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD Read More... Posted 16 September 2009 16:12 by james.broome | 3 Comments Filed under: .NET, Agile, Testing, BDD, Asp.Net MVC, TDD, MVC, Asp.Net, C#

• Asp.Net MVC – Using ActionFilters to remove HttpContext from your controllers

  One of the benefits of Asp.Net MVC is that it allows you to write easily testable code. One thing that has always been notoriously difficult to test is the HttpContext object and its associated values – the Request and Response etc. This is why Read More... Posted 27 August 2009 17:06 by james.broome | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET, Agile, BDD, Asp.Net MVC, MVC

• Asp.Net MVC – Separation of concerns amongst team members

  One of the clear advantages of using the MVC pattern is that it encourages separation of concerns – it doesn’t enforce it by any means, but following the pattern results in a nice clean, maintainable, flexible solution. The architectural advantages of Read More... Posted 24 August 2009 09:26 by james.broome | 2 Comments Filed under: .NET, Agile, MVC, Asp.Net

• A response to “Deferring Costs to Future Generations”

  I read my colleague Simon Munro ’s recent post about deferring costs to the future and how he thinks this should apply to the software development process. As a developer who is an advocate of all the things that Simon claims are simply improving future Read More... Posted 14 May 2009 14:37 by james.broome | 2 Comments Filed under: Agile, BDD, TDD, Project Management

• Behaviour Driven Development - not just for Acceptance Testing

  Last week a few of us got together to go through an excercise in Behaviour Driven Development . The purpose of this was to work through a hypothetical specification together, developing a solution using a BDD approach. There was a very varied level of Read More... Posted 15 December 2008 15:04 by james.broome | 2 Comments Filed under: Miscellaneous/General, Agile, Testing, BDD

• Why BDD works for Agile

  As I mentioned in my first post (and will probably continue to do so for the unforeseeable future), I recently attended JP Boodhoo's Nothin' But Dot Net training 'boot camp' which has motivated me to start to write about some of the stuff that I learnt Read More... Posted 22 July 2008 23:34 by james.broome | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET, Agile, Testing, BDD