https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/wiki/Gherkin

1: Feature: Some terse yet descriptive text of what is desired
2: In order to realize a named business value
3: As an explicit system actor
4: I want to gain some beneficial outcome which furthers the goal
5:
6: Scenario: Some determinable business situation
7: Given some precondition
8: And some other precondition
9: When some action by the actor
10: And some other action
11: And yet another action
12: Then some testable outcome is achieved
13: And something else we can check happens too
14:
15: Scenario: A different situation
16: …

There are several .Net implementations that use Gerkin (or a fluent equivalent) to produce acceptance tests such as StoryQ

I like the idea of sending the business users reports that demonstrate that the requirements are met.

FluentNHibernate vs. Code First in EF 4.1

http://martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html

http://nmigrations.codeplex.com/

This allows a database to be constructed as a series of migrations which allows parallel development of test and production databases.

Recently I have been studying the ASP.Net MVC 3, EF and MVC Scaffolding.

I have been having fun getting these to install on the VS 2010 Web Express Edition.
I started with the ASP.Net MVC 3 installer. This worked.
It includes NuGet (although as I later found out this is v1.2).
I used NuGet to add MVC Scaffolding. This failed to install corrected declaring a dependency upon NuGet 1.4
Eventually I found that if you uninstalled NuGet, downloaded the latest version and installed it as an administrator then it worked.

I also found some other details about the NuGet Package management console. It is simple an embedded version of PowerShell that has full access to your machine.
This means that any unknown command will attempt to use any exe’s on your path.

I was also caught out when I used an empty MVC project as a starting point. I kept on getting resource not found for my main page. I had neglected to add an HomeIndex.

// StoryQ demo

This is a basic demo of using StoryQ.
You need to implement the void methods with wrappers around the system functionality under test.

Note this uses the Given/When/Then pattern as opposed to the normal NUnit Assemble, Action, Assert.

using System;
using NUnit.Framework;

using StoryQ;

namespace Experiments
{

[TestFixture]
public class FirstTest
{

[Test]
public void SunshinePath()
{
new Story(“User Management”).InOrderTo(“Add User”)
.AsA(“Admin”).IWant(“To Add a User to the system”)
.WithScenario(“HappyPath”)
.Given(IHaveEnteredUserName)
.When(IPressSave)
.Then(UserIsAdded)
.And(IAmReturnedToTheMainWindow)
.WithScenario(“UserExists”)
.Given(IHaveEnteredUserName)
.When(IPressSave)
.And(UserAlreadyExists)
.Then(IAmShownErrorMessage)
.ExecuteWithReport();
}

private void IHaveEnteredUserName()
{
throw new NotImplementedException();
}

private void IPressSave()
{
throw new NotImplementedException();
}

private void UserIsAdded()
{
throw new NotImplementedException();
}

private void IAmReturnedToTheMainWindow()
{
throw new NotImplementedException();
}

private void UserAlreadyExists()
{
throw new NotImplementedException();
}

private void IAmShownErrorMessage()

{

throw new NotImplementedException();

}

}

}

NuGet is microsoft’s attempt at a package manager.
It works well for adding open source code to a visual studio project.
You can even host your own local server.

The basic nuget command-line download goes back to the home server to get the latest NuGet.exe which can then be used to obtain other components – even outside of visual studio.

To get the list of items (with a minimal description) you can use:

nuget list -verbose

Some of the projects are a little vague (or personal demos). Most look very interesting.

http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2011/01/13/scaffold-your-aspnet-mvc-3-project-with-the-mvcscaffolding-package/

This looks like an updated version of the castle projects generator project.
This one is powershell and t4 based which is a powerful combination.
Not quite a production “code generation” tool but it’s getting close.

Finally the microsoft camp has caught up with the linux package management tools.
NuGet is a pwershell wrapper around a lot of dependent projects.
You can even have a local NuGet cache.

http://karlshifflett.wordpress.com/xaml-power-toys/

It seems like the ASP.Net MVC people are really making their life easier with scaffolding.
Why don’t the MVVM people in WPF think along the same lines?

It can just be because the ruby on rails people have had scaffolding for years.