James Broome

This is going to be the first of three or four posts around integrating the .Net open source content management system N2CMS into the Sharp Architecture demo application Who Can Help Me?. Who Can Help Me? was born out of our work on Fancy Dress Outfitters, which had N2CMS at its core, however we decided [...]

Hot on the heels of my Machine.Specifications.AutoMocking framework, I am please to announce another extension to the awesome Machine.Specifications BDD testing framework.
Machine.Specifications.Mvc is a set of extensions for testing ASP.Net MVC specific types.
It aims to ease the testing of ActionResult objects returned from MVC Controllers by providing an MSpec BDD syntax over [...]

I’ve talked a lot recently about the work I’ve been doing at EMC Consulting with Fancy Dress Outfitters. We built a new e-commerce web application using ASP.Net MVC and launched it in 10 x 2 week iterations using Scrum project methodology.
In the aftermath of the project’s success, we were really keen to continue to showcase, [...]

If you’ve been following this blog, or those of my colleagues Howard and Jon, it’s probably been obvious that we love the Spark view engine. We’ve been using it in anger for the last 6 months or so on our latest Asp.Net MVC project and between us we have nothing but praise for it.
I’ve talked [...]

This is part 3 in a series of posts on using Behaviour Driven Development to build and test your MVC controllers. The full series is as follows:

Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 1: The HomeController
Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 2: Log On and Off with the [...]