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Whoami – Past to Present
Systems Administrator Linux – Solaris
Perl Java .NET/C# Agile Project Manager
I love what I do for work.
What you’ll learn How I build software How this helps teams Techniques Tools Show a fairly complete approach
WHY?
Automated Build/Test Benefits
Process Personal
Merging Confidence
Onboarding employees Improved skills
Testing/QA Collective Ownership
Collaboration Communication
Problems?
Multiple Developers
Main
Joe
Sue
Ted
Jan
Dependent Projects
Common
Middle Layer
Business Logic
Code Smell:Shotgun Surgery!!
Database Changes
Jan
Bob
Main
Branching and Merging
M
ain
Lin
eBranch 1
Branch 2
???
Mainline merge process
Build/Test Dev
branch
Build/Test Mainline
Merge Dev
branch to Mainline
Build/Test Mainline
Check code into Mainline
Buildservers
Developer merges to mainline
Buildserver gets changes
Buildserver builds, runs all tests and notifies team
Test results are published to team and viewable by all.
Automated testing
Unit tests=
Quality Software
Typical bug velocity
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Negative bug velocity
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Common resistance
I can’t write unit tests because… I have a UI
WaitN, QTP, Selenium Fixing someone else’s poorly written code
Refactoring, training I use a database
The tricky part.
Databases – The tricky part
Common Questions How do I write unit tests when I require a
database How do I merge changes? How do I add default/test data? How do I update…
Buildserver Production site(s)
A decent answer
Use SQL scripts! Table View Procedures Key and Constraints Default Data Test Data
My one slide solution
Automated Build Server TFS
Auto Generate Database DumpDatabase/CreateDatabase
Automated Testing MSTest
Generating the scripts DumpDatabaseToSql.exe
Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo
Generating the scripts (2)
Database Files
All schema files in revision control.
Creating the database
Another trick: Entity Framework
EdmGen2 http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/EdmGen2
Unit testing with the database Boy Scout Rule
Leave the campground cleaner than you found it.
At least… leave it as you found it.
Finally… sort of…
Wrap it all up in a build script. MSBuild, NAnt….
I’m using MSBuild… But prefer NAnt.
