Anith Gopal

Acceptance testing is basically black-box testing done by the QA team to sign off. It’s very important to have clear pre-defined goals for acceptance testing as early as possible during the planning phase. In fact, the requirements specifications should define negative scenarios and expected failure behavior, not just positive scenarios and use cases.

Enterprise Library Contrib community just published a new release. Congratulations! Check it out! Not only it upgrades all existing contributions to target the Enterprise Library 4.1 , it also includes new features: 5 new or rewritten DAAB data providers for IBM DB2, MySql, Oracle ODP.NET, PostgreSql, and SQLite Query Application Block Resource Application Block integrated with Unity If you benefit from these extensions, please make sure to let contributors know and post your feedback through the codeplex forum.

The talk Bob and I gave at the p&p Redmond summit in October is now available for online viewing. In it we discuss and demo (use time breakpoints  to fast forward to a specific topic): the overall theme of the release – simplicity & improved user experience (00:00) data accessors (06:25) higher performing logging (18:00) fluent configuration interface (20:32) config tool facelift and making it easier to plug in custom extensions to the config tool (30:18) – honouring validation attributes between VAB and System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations (41:08) tackling external and internal complexity with architectural refactoring and resulting testability improvements  (42:16) container independence (43:34) Enjoy! If you like what you see and want to play with EntLib5.0, download the most recent bits from entlib.codeplex.com and provide your feedback. Enterprise Library v5 preview at the p&p Summit 2009 Related videos: Unity, Prism 2

These are some of the events I’ll be presenting at in the next couple of months: Patterns & Practices Conference Ukraine, Kiev, Sep 16, 2009 ( www.pnp.in.ua ) Patterns & Practices Summit Russia, Moscow, Sep 22, 2009 ( www.pnpsummit.ru ) Patterns & Practices Summit Redmond, Oct 12-16, 2009 ( www.pnpsummit.com ) TechEd EMEA, Berlin, Nov 9-13, 2009 ( www.msteched.com ) Whether you are using Enterprise Library or any other p&p asset, I’d be happy to chat with you about your experience. Look forward to it!

Several times when I’ve been talking with customers about implementing an SDL, or what they should be doing to secure their in-house developed applications, I get asked a similar branch of questions.

Il team di Patterns & Practices ha appena pubblicato su Codeplex la “Beta 2” della guida Acceptance Test Engineering Guidance . Cos’è l’acceptance testing? “Acceptance Testing: Planned evaluation of a system by customers/customer proxies to assess to what degree it satisfies their expectations.” Il test di accettazione è una parte fondamentale perchè da esso spesso dipende il successo o meno di un progetto.

  Questa nuova guida di P&P parla dell’ acceptance testing ovvero (in due parole) della disciplina che racchiude tutte le scelte che devono essere fatte per verificare se un particolare software è compliant ai requisiti richiesti e quindi può essere considerato valido per sè o per i propri clienti. E’ una disciplina non comunemente adottata nei progetti e quindi ne consiglio una lettura, in modo da capire come eventualmente adattarla al proprio ciclo di sviluppo del software. Questa guida copre vari temi del acceptance testing analizzandoli da diversi punti di vista fornendo un aiuto alla pianificazione, alla creazione ed esecuzione di questi test

Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the latest addition to the p&p library of software engineering guidance: Acceptance Test Engineering Guide, Volume I (BETA 2) Quick Links – Codeplex site: http://codeplex.com/TestingGuidance Common Scenarios – How to Plan for Acceptance Testing – What Kinds of Acceptance Tests to Run – How to Create and Run Acceptance Tests – Defining What “Done” Means – How to Justify Your Approach – How to Streamline Your Acceptance Process Contents…( read more )