posted on Monday, May 15, 2006 5:31 PM
by
Benjy
Biztalk Best Practices Analyzer and BizUnit 2006
Heres something awesome I came across and absolutely have to share with you. The Biztalk team are coming out with a BTS Best Practices Analyser on the lines of the SQL best practices analyser and the Baseline Security Analyzer . Richard Seroter has put in an article outlining what we can expect when it is finally released at the end of June this year. IMO, this is waaayy cool. It will be a great learning resource as well as a QA tool and since it will be extensible, we can put in our own custom rules and standards as well. I cant wait to get my hands on this thing.
Also, Kevin B Smith has released BizUnit 2006 (v2.1) featuring some new test steps. His blog also has an article with some introductory comments on how BizUnit works backed up with a useful picture of the scenario he had written about when introducing the tool a while ago. If you download and install it, the CHM file has a section called the BizUnit class which contains a good description on how this works. I also found (when i first used it quite a while ago) that only the default constructor was working. For some reason the other constructor which allows you to home in on a particular section of your config XML wasnt working, but maybe it was just me not understanding how to get it to work. However I did find that the default constructor is good enough for most scenarios. Im looking forward to continuing my usage of the tool in this project. I only scratched the surface last time (there are nearly 38 custom tests/steps in v2) and should be able to try deeper stuff now. In combination with the Nant and CC.NET auto build and deploy scenario, this makes for a real powerful development framework.