.net on the iPhone?

Posted on Friday, 04 July 2008

There is a little project called Monoobjc which is a mono to Objective C bridge that allows you to use the native Mac OS X libraries in .net code on the mac.

That is pretty cool, but one of the features is to allow the .app folder to contain the mono dll's that it needs and execute with out the mono runtime installed.

So if you take that one step further, it should be possible to build an iPhone app, the same way and just bundle the mono code along for the ride.

So I wonder how long it will take until this happens, my bet is someone will do it in less than six months.

A word on exploratory testing

Posted on Saturday, 28 June 2008

Anne-Marie Charret has posted about her desire to keep test documents when doing Exploratory testing.

On my current project we are delivering in excess of three thousand requirements, and with each requirement spawning up to six test cases, we were simply drowning in a sea of tests.

To try and survive this, and complete the project with my sanity intact, something had to change. There were a lot of changes, however the main change that I instigated was to introduce the option of performing exploratory testing when the requirement was delivered. Documenting the tests as we performed them, instead of a huge up-front planning process. This ensures that we still maintain a record of our test case to requirement traceability

Well did it work? I am happy to say, yes. Instead of spending most of our time in front of Microsoft Team Foundation Server, we spent the time in front of the application finding bugs.

A different kind of robot

Posted on Thursday, 12 June 2008

With Microsoft robotics studio around these days a lot of guys are now playing with various kinds of robots, including some guys that I have worked with. Rob is playing around with a Lego Mindstorms robot and Dan has been working with a KHR2HV.

Well I am not about to start shouting me too. My brother and I have been working on a completely different type of "robot" that is currently controlled by DOS based software.

If you are curious what this is going to be used for you can head over to my other blog and see the details.

Ie Tester

Posted on Wednesday, 04 June 2008

Need to do browser compatibility testing for IE 5.5, 6, 8 and 8 ?

IeTester should do the trick. It's a stand alone application that contains all 4 rendering engines.

Pex is now publicly available

Posted on Monday, 26 May 2008

Microsoft Research have finally released Pex. "Pex (Program EXploration) is an intelligent assistant to the programmer. From a parameterized unit test, it automatically produces a traditional unit test suite with high code coverage. In addition, it suggests to the programmer how to fix the bugs."

Look for a more detailed post on using Pex shortly, and yes, it will involve triangles.