(Click here for a larger view of the first slide in Microsoft's "unit testing for mobile devices" webcast)
The one-hour program is presented by long-time embeddded developer Maarten Struys (left), Microsoft community program manager Constanze Roman (right), and Microsoft documentation specialist Joshua Partlow (not pictured), Microsoft says. According to Microsoft's MSDN website, "24 Hours of Windows Mobile application development: Unit testing for mobile devices" explores testing methods that are newly available to those writing Windows Mobile applications using
Visual Studio 2008.
Visual Studio 2008, released last year, first made automated
unit testing available to developers targeting mobile devices, Microsoft says. According to MSDN's blurb, the "sample-filled" webcast will teach developers how to create unit tests for smart devices, how to debug unit tests, and how to run unit tests inside a command prompt.
The last slide in Microsoft's unit testing webcast
(Click to enlarge)Like the first eight webcasts in this promised 24-part series, "24 Hours of Windows Mobile application development: Unit testing for mobile devices" features a mix of PowerPoint slides -- pictured above and at the top of our story, plus video demonstrating the use of Visual Studio and the Windows Mobile device emulator -- pictured below. The webcasts are typically broadcast live Wednesdays at 10 AM PDT, then subsequently made available on demand.
Visual Studio in use for unit testing
(Click to enlarge)Windows Embedded Evangelist Maarten Struys is a technical manager at PTS Software in the Netherlands. Struys speaks regularly at Windows-related conferences, according to Microsoft, and is also a freelance journalist who maintains
a blog on the
.NET for Devices website.
Constanze Roman, who has joined Struys for most of the webcasts, is a community program manager with Microsoft's Windows Mobile team. In addition to participating regularly in activities aimed at the Windows Mobile developer community, she maintains her own blog devoted to Windows Mobile development,
Constanze's Mobile Musings.
Finally, Joshua Partlow is described as a documentation specialist who is part of Microsoft's Windows Mobile publishing team.
Other recent offerings in the "24 Hours" series have included guides to
.NET Compact Framework 3.5 Power Toys,
using Pocket Outlook functionality,
developing "battery-friendly" applications and
programming for different form factors.
Further informationTo view "24 hours of Windows Mobile application development: Unit Testing for Mobile Devices," go to MSDN,
here. [A Windows Live ID and password will be requested].
To get a list of other available webcasts devoted to Windows Mobile development, see Microsoft's website,
here.
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