I’ve noticed Rake has been gaining some traction within the .net community as of late, or at least within a certain segment of that community. We’re currently using Rake to automate the great bulk of an entire deployment pipeline here at VersionOne, and I know of a few teams at Quick Solutions that are doing similar things. I believe Rake is a great tool for automating intensive processes and/or tasks and also find it to be great for handling some of the more mundane tasks we do on a daily basis. I spend a fair amount of...

If you’ve hand-rolled your own Context/Specification apparatus to support your test spec-first lifestyle, you’ve likely got a base class that looks something like the following: 1: public abstract class concerns 2: { 3: [SetUp] 4: public virtual void setup_context() 5: { 6: context(); 7: } 8:...