James Newkirk

xUnit.net Beta 2 released

On Thursday Brad and I released Beta 2 of xUnit.net. Brad wrote a forum post highlighting the changes that we made going from Beta 1 to Beta2.

In addition we also added support for Resharper in addition to TestDriven.net.

[Test] becomes [Fact]
The rationale for making this change stretches back to earlier this year when I attended the Agile Open Northwest conference. Kent Beck was discussing the paper from David Saff about theories and someone in the audience said that if you were going to call "for-all" tests "Theory" then you should call a single test "Fact". Since then I have had a number of conversations with people and Fact seems to fit.

I would like to thank all the people who have provided us feedback since we launched.

xUnit.net Beta 2 arriving shortly

Brad and I have been busy incorporating the initial feedback from the first beta of xUnit.net. Some of the highlights include support for Resharper 3.0 and a better way to do Fixture SetUp and Teardown. Brad has written up the the details here. We should be releasing the new beta sometime in the next week.

The CodePlex Team and the patterns & practices Summit

The CodePlex team will be well represented again at the patterns & practices Summit in Redmond, WA - November 5-9, 2007 . We will be presenting or co-presenting the following sessions:

• "Yet Another Talk on Agility" - Brad Wilson and Peter Provost
• Dependency Injection Frameworks - Brad Wilson and Scott Densmore
• EntLib Devolved - Scott Densmore
• Make It Your Own - Scott Densmore
• Lessons Learned in Programmer Testing - Jim Newkirk
• CodePlex is sponsoring an evening event on Tuesday titled "Open Source in the Enterprise".

Peter's not on the CodePlex team but we like him just the same. For additonal information on the summit and all of the sessions please click here.