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Linq to SQL is great. You can open up your Db schema, drag some tables in, and in no time you have a data context class with loads of functionality, and data classes for all of the entities. No more recordsets to unpack into objects, no more fields to pack into SQL params, just lists of strongly typed ojects. Even better, the classes are ...

  As I mentioned in my first post (and will probably continue to do so for the unforeseeable future), I recently attended JP Boodhoo's Nothin' But Dot Net training 'boot camp' which has motivated me to start to write about some of the stuff that I learnt and am still trying to make sense of... The main focus of the course was using ...

Conchango are exhibiting at TestExpo on Thursday 10th April.   It is being held at: Congress Centre 23-28 Great Russell Street London WC1B 3LS.   Doors open at 9.00am and you will find us on Stand number 18.   Tickets are free so hurry up and apply before they are all gone!  You can apply at ...

Recently I was sent an email asking me for some advice on using TFS with the scrum for team systems plug-in for managing testing tasks and defect tracking on an agile project. I thought the answers might be useful to others, so I have posted them here:Basically I want to use VSTS / TFS (with the Conchango template) to manage functional testing as ...

This is a little app I created to make comparing changes between live and staging versions of web sites easier for some of our testers and us poor dev's who get told something doesn't look right on the test server but looks fine on the dev box ("it works on my machine!"). Its pretty simple, all it does is take two URL's from ...

I have been thinking a great deal over the last few months about testing in Agile projects.  I gave a presentation on this subject at a recent Conchango Agile Community session.The presentation was a hodge-podge of different ideas and observations.  I’ll try here to expand a bit on some of the topics I raised at the time.  The ...

Within an agile project one of the most important tasks to manage effectively in order to ensure delivery of functionality by the end of the sprint is that of raising, managing and resolving defects in a timely and efficient manner. Outstanding defects can hold up the release of functionality to the business, denying them of the benefit of this ...

Minimising the Bug Debt - A question of size I think most people would agree that on a real world development project of any scale, bugs will exist. Apply all the best practices in the world in the shape of unit testing and automated functional testing but there will be bugs. Minimising the size of the debt that is allowed to accrue is ...

Managing Bugs in an Agile Project - Agile debt collection Previously I spoke of the bug debt and how, over the course of a project, bugs will arise and will either be handled immediately or held over to be completed “at a later date”. In order to maintain the concept where you are only ever a single iteration away from shippable, ...