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What are the best TDD related tools for VS 2008 and C#?

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Ojas

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May 14, 2009, 1:44:29 PM5/14/09
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I'm trying to put together a high-productivity TDD environment for my
dev team.

Does anyone have any recommendations for the best tools to help us get
started and be successful with TDD in C# and VS 2008?

It doesn't matter if the tool is free or costs $$$.

If the tool can provide value that is greater than what it costs,
we'll consider purchasing it.

The goal is high productivity + helping us be successful with TDD ...
especially for a team that is planning to go 100% TDD that to date has
limited experience in TDD.


Phlip

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May 17, 2009, 12:59:18 AM5/17/09
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Ojas wrote:

> I'm trying to put together a high-productivity TDD environment for my
> dev team.
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations for the best tools to help us get
> started and be successful with TDD in C# and VS 2008?
>
> It doesn't matter if the tool is free or costs $$$.

Nothing's free if it's a fixer-upper! (-:

> The goal is high productivity + helping us be successful with TDD ...
> especially for a team that is planning to go 100% TDD that to date has
> limited experience in TDD.

Get with your local XP users group, because good coaching is more important for
TDD than the tools.

But TDD is so popular these days that nobody bothers with this newsgroup
anymore. Everyone works in their own platforms' forums. In _some_ of those
forums, relentless testing is (at last!) taken for granted!

So perfectly good questions here might languish. For example, I don't do .NET,
so I'm only indirectly aware of Charlie Poole (IIRC) and his NsUnit. If that
indeed is the name of the project, it will be the most mature one.

The leading edge these days is something called BDD, so you might want to help
one Jeff Brown. He recently posted this, else-net:

> I'm getting ready to produce an RSpec adapter for use with the Gallio test
> automation platform (http://www.gallio.org/) on the .Net DLR via IronRuby.

Unless if that involves writing tests in the wrong language (Ruby!), it might be
a good alternative. Or it might just ruin you for C#... (-:

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Phlip

James Peckham

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May 25, 2009, 1:18:39 PM5/25/09
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Imo plain NUnit and TestDriven.net. They're very simple and do the
job. Also TestDriven.net has ncover viewer built in which is handy.

James Peckham

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May 25, 2009, 1:19:36 PM5/25/09
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OH YEA and NMock works good for mocking if you don't like the NUnit
Mocks.

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