Dude, where is my Kaizen?

Björn Rochel's weblog

After spending a lot of time with xUnit.net I recently had to go back to MSTest for my testing again (because it’s the de facto standard at my current client which is not negotiable ;-().

Former colleagues of mine will probably laugh about this, because I’ve had a love-and-hate-relationship with MSTest and especially the VisualStudio runner [...]

. . . or how one could implement the It-Syntax introduced by MSpec. If you don’t know what the hell I’m talking about take a look at this code. (I don’t know if that’s the current MSpec syntax but I think you’ll get where I’d like to take you . . . )

[Description]
public class Transferring_between_from_account_and_to_account
{
[...]

While watching the first of JP Boodhoos screencast series I discovered that a concept that I used in order to introduce testing to developers who work mostly in legacy code (I’m using Michael Feathers terminology here) is in fact a well known pattern.
Let me give you an example. You’ve got a class that you want [...]

One of the positive things of being ill and staying at home is having time to look into stuff I always wanted to look into but never actually had the time to. A good example for this is Behavior Driven Development or in short BDD.
BDD is described by its creator Dan North as an enhancement [...]

Today I stumbled again about this and feel (once more) a bit frustrated about the current version of MSTest.
In theory Visual Studio VS2008 supports Test-Class-Inheritance. Once you actually start using it, you pretty fast encounter one big limitation:
The test base class must be in the same assembly as the derived test
Mh,  is that such an [...]