Under the hood and working with .Net, TDD, Software Design, and Agile Stuff
I've had a minor epiphany in the last week or so. For some boneheaded reason I never caught onto TestDriven.Net's "Repeat Test Run" feature until I saw somebody mention it on a comment to Ayende's post. I promptly went into VS.Net and set up keyboard shortcuts for "Repeat Test Run" & "Repeat with Debugging." No more hunting around in the open window list trying to get back to the test fixture, just go "CTRL-2" or "CTRL-3" (my mappings) and run the last test. Anything that makes the mechanics simpler just frees your mind for the meatier thinking work.
It's a deceptively simple looking tool, but there's goodness galore in TestDriven.Net.
Tips on setting up the keyboard shortcuts:
http://weblogs.asp.net/nunitaddin/archive/2004/08/30/222447.aspx
About Jeremy D. Miller
Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy previously worked as a systems architect building mission critical supply chain software for a Fortune 100 company and learned agile development practices as a .Net consultant at ThoughtWorks, one of the pioneers of agile development. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap (http://structuremap.sourceforge.net) tool for Dependency Injection with .Net and the forthcoming StoryTeller (http://storyteller.tigris.org) tool for supercharged FIT testing in .Net. Jeremy's thoughts on just about everything software related can be found on his weblog "The Shade Tree Developer" at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller, part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy is a Microsoft MVP for C#.
