--- title: "MbUnit is coming along, and I get to have some of my ideas thrown in" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/29/mbunit-is-coming-along-and-i-get-to-have-some-of-my-ideas-th.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/29/mbunit-is-coming-along-and-i-get-to-have-some-of-my-ideas-th.html" published: "2004-07-29T18:26:00" updated: "2004-07-29T18:26:00" tags: ["Agile Related"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "Peli is doing an awesome job. One wonders where he finds the time. I think he's experiencing the creativity boost I experienced when I was “on my own” for three months a while ago. Remember? I made The Regulator and 3…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # MbUnit is coming along, and I get to have some of my ideas thrown in By Roy Osherove July 29, 2004 In [Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related) **Historical article** · Originally published July 29, 2004; technical details may be outdated. [Peli](http://blog.dotnetwiki.org/) is doing an awesome job. One wonders where he finds the time. I think he's experiencing the creativity boost I experienced when I was “on my own” for three months a while ago. Remember? I made The Regulator and 3 MSDN articles and a bunch of contest and a record blog entries amount. Yeah - I had no life whatsoever. Its fun to see I'm not alone :) Anyway - [MbUnit](http://mbunit.tigris.org/) \- Peli's pet project (one of many very cool projects he's doing) is taking off. Sky rocketing actually. MbUnit's GUI now looks like Nunit, and it allows doing all the things I already talked about in my blog for [unit testing databases](http://blog.dotnetwiki.org/archive/2004/07/20/634.aspx) (the various rollback attributes and the DB restore stuff too). Now he added another feature (which I'm proud to say I suggested) - P[erformance testing via Perf Counters](http://blog.dotnetwiki.org/archive/2004/07/28/695.aspx) using simple attributes.  Very Cool indeed. It took about 45 minutes after I suggested it for him to tell me its done. (that's good. It took him less than 10 minutes to tell me the Rollback attribute is done - we didn't even finish our current chat - I swear he could have programmed that feature with one hand while still talking to me on IM - creepy). Anyway, he's now added yet another feature to his [TestFu](http://www.dotnetwiki.org/Default.aspx?tabid=52) library - which allows various interesting data database related automated chores such as back and restore , [A dependency graph for your database](http://blog.dotnetwiki.org/archive/2004/07/28/688.aspx). very nice and cool. Keep it up Peli. You're doing some major breakthroughs for testing. ## More in Agile Related [All posts in Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related) - Jul 29, 2004 ### [How not to do TDD](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/29/how-not-to-do-tdd.html) - Jul 29, 2004 ### [Selecting an Agile Process](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/29/selecting-an-agile-process.html) - Jul 29, 2004 ### [TDD workshop in Atlanta, Georgia - are you up to it?](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/29/tdd-workshop-in-atlanta-georgia-are-you-up-to-it.html) - Jul 29, 2004 ### [TDD workshop went well - ready for the next one?](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/7/29/tdd-workshop-went-well-ready-for-the-next-one.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. 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