Well,
Brad Wilson and
Jim Newkirk must really be busy lately. After I talked about the release of xUnit.net RC2, just today, Brad announced the release of RC3. As always, you can find the latest bits
here. This fixes a number of bugs and adds
CruiseControl.NET and
ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 support as well in addition to the
Resharper 3.1 and
TestDriven.NET support. For more information about it, check out Brad's post
here. More or less, they are feature complete for version 1.0 and the only that I think really is needed at this point is a decent GUI runner and that's well acknowledged as something they are working on. Visual Studio integration would be nice as well...
For my other posts in this series, check them out here:
If you were in attendance at last night's
RockNUG appearance, all tests for my demos were using xUnit.net, so I am actively using it right now and will be for my
CMAP Code Camp appearance this weekend. However, I did not show the GUI runner because, well, it's not there yet, and instead, the console runner works just fine, thank you. So, go ahead and pick up the latest bits and give the team feedback!
One last note regarding Brad, he was
recently interviewed by
Scott Swigart and
Sean Campbell over at
How Software Is Built and gives some interesting insights in the open source world inside and outside Microsoft and his contributions to it. Very good interview and well worth the time to read.
I want to thank the fine folks at the
Rockville .NET Users Group (RockNUG) and
Dean Fiala for giving me the opportunity to speak last night. It was a record crowd last night, so I'm glad that people were interested in Loose Coupling, Design Patterns, Test Driven Development, Behavior Driven Development and Inversion of Control containers. I hope everyone got some good information, and if not interested in using containers, design patterns and such, at least know they exist and have their use. Based on the feedback I've already received, it was warming and why I like presenting at user groups, so that both of us can learn.
Once again, I'd like to plug my
DC ALT.NET group that I run. Our next meeting is scheduled for April 23rd and the topic will be Continuous Integration with
Jay Flowers. We'll announce the location shortly for our group. You can go ahead and sign up for our mailing list
here.
Anyhow, here are some resources that can help point you in the right direction. This includes articles, blogs and such that I find will be useful in your journey to better understand these things:
After my
CMAP Code Camp session over the weekend, I will go ahead and post my slides and code samples for your enjoyment. So, if you're in the Columbia, MD area this weekend and haven't signed up, go ahead and do so. Hope to see a great crowd there!
