Ranjan Sakalley

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• Beyond Code
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• Writing unit tests for Windows Forms to test DataBinding

  Me and my pair were creating a form for the application, and basically testing out the data binding on the controls in the form. Having been bound to a domain object, the controls were tested as Posted Apr 16 2006, 04:23 PM by rsakalley with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: XP/TDD

• Can TDD help managing and guiding off-shore teams?

  One of the first ideas that I had, when I started reading about TDD was this - Can a manager/lead keep track of the code written by his team, by inspecting and adding to the tests written by them? My experiments give me an affirmative. What about you... Posted Jun 21 2005, 11:50 PM by rsakalley with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: XP/TDD

• Metrics and XP

  The measurement of change, the expected and the implemented, are best expressed as numbers. The numbers might represent different aspects in different situations; in different phases, sprints, pushes, periods or whatever you prefer to call them. The number... Posted Apr 05 2005, 07:19 AM by rsakalley with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Beyond Code, XP/TDD

• The importance of being Extreme with Development Testing

  When developing a product, one of the most important problems that a development team has to tackle is the fear of the unknown. While both services and products concentrate on an act of automation for the end user, in contrast with a service that serves... Posted Mar 08 2005, 08:28 AM by rsakalley with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Beyond Code, XP/TDD

• NUnit and automatic method input parameter verification

  Almost all methods depend on one or more input parameters. To verify each and every one of these parameters, for boundary conditions, nulls and such generic cases, becomes an overload, for each method in a class. It also leads to writing repetitive test... Posted Feb 21 2005, 12:41 AM by rsakalley with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Code, XP/TDD

• Change the Positive Testing style.

  By now, almost all developers know how important Unit Testing is. And still everybody, including managers who create schedules, and developers who break them, follow an ignorant approach. From my experiences as a developer, I have been following the positive... Posted Jan 05 2005, 10:56 PM by rsakalley with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: XP/TDD