John Alexander and Barry Gervin on Unit Testing
John and Barry talk with us about Test-Driven Development, Unit Testing, and other aspects of Extreme Programming that are being used today. We had given lip service to unit testing in past shows, but John and Barry were able to explain the benefits as well as the how-to of test-driven development
Guests:
John Alexander
John Alexander co-founded the largest technical blogging community in the world, Geekswithblogs.Net before selling it several years ago and built music chart applications for Billboard Magazine used by "American Top 40". He's sat in Kirk's Chair on the bridge, has recorded cartoon pilots as part of a voice ensemble cast, is the co-creator of the "Geek" t-shirt (found at most Microsoft conferences), and was Facebook friends with Patrick Swayze.
John has a passion for designing and building accessible experiences using machine learning coupled with voice, touch, and virtual/mixed reality. His secret identity is a mild-mannered Senior Content Developer on the Microsoft APEX team (docs.microsoft.com) focused on ML.NET, .NET Core, and Docker. He also is a former Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft MVP and loves to paint, draw, game, do voiceovers, and spend time with his spouse and three children on all sorts of adventures.
Barry Gervin
Barry Gervin is a Principal Consultant with ObjectSharp Consulting. Barry, a technical leader with over 15 years experience, has helped many development teams architect and build large-scale mission critical applications. Barry is skilled in the Architecture and Development of Distributed Applications and Databases. Some of his notable recent work is aimed at establishing best practices for .NET development. He has been deeply involved with Microsoft's .NET platform and is a convert from the PowerBuilder development community. In addition to consulting, Barry has been a Software Development Instructor for over 10 years and currently holds a MS Certified Trainer designation in addition to .NET MS Certified Solution Developer and MS Solution Framework Practitioner designations.
Links:
- NUnit http://www.nunit.org
- Book: Test Driven Development in Microsoft .NET http://www.nunit.org/books.html
- Article: Test Driven C# http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/04/ExtremeProgramming/default.aspx
- TestDriven.com - Testing portal http://www.testdriven.com/modules/news/
- Brian Marick's Blog http://www.testing.com/cgi-bin/blog
- Darrell Norton's Blog http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/darrell.norton/articles/3374.aspx
- Benjamin Mitchell's Blog http://benjaminm.net/default.aspx
- The Code Project http://www.thecodeproject.com/
- Advanced Unit Testing, Part 1 - Overview http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/autp1.asp