This week I visited the first JUG’s event in Bern. The topic was Jenkins (fork of Hudson). The presentation of Dr. Simon Wiest was very entertaining. He explained continuous integration and showed how easy it is to install, configure and run Jenkins. .Net integration in Jenkins Jenkins is from the Java ecosystem, so it isn’t obvious to use it in a .Net environment. But one of best thing of Jenkins is that there exists a lot of plugins. So, there…
As you perhaps know, there exists a very interesting project on Google code, with which you can visualize the activities on your repository: Gource. Getting started It supports Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and SVN. There is also a way to visualize the changes in a repository of a Microsoft Team Foundation server: GourceTFS. Luckily, in one of my current projects I use Subversion as repository. So it is very easy to visualize the log. Just go in the command line to…
In one of my current projects I had the following code (I simplified the code a bit): public string ConnectionString { get { switch(this.Importer) { case Importer.SqlServer: return "Server=localhost;Database=Northwind"; case Importer.SqlServerOleDb: return"Provider=SQLOLEDB;Data Source=localhost;Initial Catalog=Northwind"; default: throw new NotSupportedException( string.Format("Importer {0} is not supported yet.", this.Importer)); } } } After running the code coverage tool (dotCover from JetBrains) I received the following picture: First idea So, my code was clear and understandable, but obviously not fully tested (green: covered by tests,…
Software design is one of the most important skills a software engineer should have. But what is software design exactly? If you search for a definition you find something like this: Software design is a process of problem-solving and planning for a software solution. After the purpose and specifications of software are determined, software developers will design or employ designers to develop a plan for a solution. It includes low-level component and algorithm implementation issues as well as the architectural…