David Mohundro - FSDNUG Meeting with Raymond Lewallen on Behavior Driven Design

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

FSDNUG Meeting with Raymond Lewallen on Behavior Driven Design

Last night kicked out the Fort Smith .NET User Group's first meeting. It went great! I would guess that we had at least 20 or 30 people show up.

Raymond Lewallen spoke to us about Behavior Driven Design (BDD). I thought I'd share links to a few of the resources that he brought up last night.

Dan North - He came up with the BDD idea
- Also check out this blog post for more detail regarding BDD
specunit-net - A set of extensions to strive for more behavioral tests (specifications) based on SpecUnit for Ruby
NUnit - The testing framework Raymond used
- MbUnit - I actually use MbUnit for most of my tests, but NUnit is fine.
Castle Windsor - The IoC container that Raymond mentioned.

Here are a few other IoC/DI containers available for .NET development

StructureMap - From Jeremy Miller
Unity - The Microsoft offering

Rhino.Mocks - A mocking framework by Oren Eini.
Automocking Container - An IoC container that takes advantage of Rhino.Mocks for mocking out dependencies.
General BDD resources
- Behavior-Driven.org
- The Wikipedia entry on BDD

All in all, a great presentation. Considering the breadth of information that BDD covers, I think Raymond did a great job. I hope that FSDNUG can continue to bring topics like this to the area.

.NET | .NET User Group | Unit Testing

posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 7:31:09 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 12:06:57 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Yeah, I enjoyed the presentation as well. I especially liked his convention for naming test fixtures to communicate the context of the tests within them. And the Spec Unit extension methods were cool, too. I'll probably blog about some of those things myself in the couple of days. I think, though, that a lot of people there may not have had the exposure to unit testing that would make the presentation meaningful. Not Ray's fault, but I think the Silverlight talk next meeting may be a little more accessible. I don't think you can dumb down the scheduled topics to cater to the lowest common denominator, but officers may need to consciously start small and then scale up the complexity of the topics. Just my 2 cents... Thanks for your help in getting this started, Mo!

Brian Sullivan

Tuesday, March 04, 2008 2:00:35 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Great list of resources. I added a link to this entry from the FSDNUG site at http://www.fsdnug.org/previousMeetings.html because I think it will be helpful to those that were at the meeting that want to pursue BDD.

Michael Paladino

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