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Justin Collum

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May 24, 2012, 2:23:28 PM5/24/12
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Hey, have any of you messed with NCrunch? It's a continuous testing tool for VS.  http://www.ncrunch.net/. There's a little video on there that is a nice demo of what it does. Looks frackin awesome really. There's also a tool called Giles, but I wasn't as impressed with that one -- the good part about Giles though is that it's not dependent on the IDE. OTOH, I don't know anyone who builds c# without VS2010, so the value is dubious. 

Adron Hall

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May 24, 2012, 4:06:34 PM5/24/12
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The point is that Giles (started by Jeff Schumacher, awesome dev where I used to work who's always fighting to remove the barrier that VS often is) can be used in almost every practical environment and also works well in a build server scenario.

The problem w/ tight integration with VS tooling is that it often breaks having honest Continuous Integration and makes Continuous Deployment almost impossible. Thus Giles, where we worked, was perfect since we needed to keep a solidly clean build server, a lean dev environment (we used VS, but it looked more like TextMate w/ ReSharper abilities than it did Visual Studio...) and of course heavy TDD in the course of a day's work.  :)

Anyway, just wanted to add some context around Giles. I haven't played with ncrunch yet either, I might soon though as I'm actually doing some work with .NET MVC Web API to serve up services to a Node.js App.

-Adron


On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Justin Collum <jco...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey, have any of you messed with NCrunch? It's a continuous testing tool for VS.  http://www.ncrunch.net/. There's a little video on there that is a nice demo of what it does. Looks frackin awesome really. There's also a tool called Giles, but I wasn't as impressed with that one -- the good part about Giles though is that it's not dependent on the IDE. OTOH, I don't know anyone who builds c# without VS2010, so the value is dubious. 



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