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I have been writing software professionally for over 20 years. I work as a software development consultant at Excella Consulting (http://www.excella.com) in the Washington, D.C. area. I am the .NET best practices steward at Excella, working with our .NET project teams to facilitate and help the team continuously improve by following new and better practices. The development work I've been doing lately is with ASP.NET MVC in C# with NHibernate, LINQ, SQL Server, and several more technologies. I'm often called upon to setup the continuous integration server, perform code analysis, and automate the testing, packaging and deployment of software. ...more

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Quality Assurance When Machines Write Code

Automated Testing in the Age of AI

When I wrote about automated testing in “Pro .NET Best Practices,” the challenge was convincing teams to write tests at all. Today, the landscape has shifted dramatically. AI coding assistants can generate tests faster than most developers can write them manually. But this raises a critical question: if AI writes our code and AI writes our tests, who’s actually en

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Stephen D. Ritchie wrote a new blog post Quality Assurance When Machines Write Code Automated Testing in the Age of AIWhen I wrote about automated testing in “Pro .NET Best Practices,” the challenge was convincing teams to write tests Read more of this blog post »
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