Sunny Sunday
Yesterday I went for a marvellous four hour walk with my friend Joen and my favorite dog Tintin. Tintin found a new home with Joen a few months ago, with a little help from me.
Early morning, the sun is shining today.
But I’m still inside, pondering Test-Driven Development in .NET. I agree with these unit testing thoughts: most interesting frameworks (for DotNet or anything else) aren’t very easy to test yet.
In my current project, we have a persistence framework and a GUI generator that automatically builds screens with CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) for any object and links between them. I wrote the GUI generator in a few days - but testing both persistence and GUI is difficult.
Can mock objects really be the simplest thing that work? I hope not. 
On the other hand, I’ll give Abstract ADO.NET a try pretty soon.
I recently started using the NUnit Addin for Visual Studio (here is a screen shot and a download. Working this way has a fresh feel to it. Sometimes I still miss my Smalltalk workspaces from the late Eighties - but life goes on.
I’ll take a break and watch the sun. I know just where to go for a long walk in the woods and some sauna. It takes a while to get there, but it’s worth it.