Sean McCormack

Automated unit testing has rapidly grown into an integral part of the development life cycle. With the increased usage of agile disciplines such as eXtreme Programming (XP) and Test Driven Development (TDD), along with the introduction of continuous integration tools such as CruiseControl.NET and Draco.NET, the need for automated testing tools has grown even stronger. If you've done unit testing in .NET, then chances are you've worked with NUnit, which was one of the first feature-rich testing applications available to the .NET Community. This article will outline the development of a similar testing tool called Zanebug. The need for Zanebug came about while developing a persistence framework for an eCommerce company. At the time, our team was using NUnit for all of our testing needs. Although it's an excellent framework, it unfortunately didn't provide all of the ... (more)

Microsoft .NET - Object-Relational Mapping with Codus

The Impedance Mismatch If you’ve spent more than two months developing any form of software, chances are you’ve had to program against a database. Unfortunately, despite the rapid gains in software sophistication over the past decade, few well-recognized tools are available to deal with the problem of object-relational mapping, often referred to as the “impedance mismatch.” To quote Scott Ambler: The object-oriented paradigm is based on proven software engineering principles. The relational paradigm, however, is based on proven mathematical principles. Bec... (more)