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Supercharge Your .NET Testing with NCrunch – The Slide Deck

On Thursday, March 20, 2025, I gave a lightning talk at the North Houston .NET User Group meeting in The Woodlands, Texas. If you are interested in the slide deck I put together here's the PowerPoint presentation; Supercharge Your .NET Testing with NCrunch.

The slide deck doesn't really have anything earth shattering. I used it mostly as a guide for what I wanted to cover.

I felt the talk went well. I was hoping for alot of audience participation which I got. Turns out there are a few people who have used NCrunch who were there. It was a good opportunity to compare notes.

TLDR; NCrunch is awesome and you should use it.

If there are any additional questions, let me know and I'll get them answered.

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March 14

Speaking at the March 2025 North Houston .NET User Group

At the upcoming North Houston .NET User Group meeting (3/20/2025), Tony Cardella, Software Engineer and Software Engineering Capability Lead at BJSS, will be delivering a lightning talk on the topic of NCrunch.

Title: Supercharge Your .NET Testing with NCrunch

Tired of waiting for tests to run? NCrunch is a powerful continuous testing tool for .NET that runs your tests in the background, providing instant feedback, real-time code coverage, and parallel execution to speed up development. In this lightning talk, we’ll explore how NCrunch works, highlight its key features, and see it in action with a quick demo.

More information is available here: https://www.meetup.com/nhdnug/events/305901663/

Hope to see you there!

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November 18

When I Get a New Job, I’m Updating My Licenses

If you've been paying attention to LinkedIn, you've probably noticed that I am looking for a new job. If you are hiring and you would like to talk, shoot me an email.

When I get this new job and I have some income, I'm going to update my licenses for the following Linqpad and NCrunch.

LINQPad

I love this app. I first used this back during my tenure at Logica when we were working with StreamInsight. It's a good app to use to be able to quickly test out chunks of C#, VB.NET, and F# code. The app is extensible so you can download other drivers that let you hook up to other SQL/NoSQL databases. Really cool for learning/prototyping code. Check out the website for more information: https://www.linqpad.net.

NCrunch

NCrunch is an automated concurrent testing for Visual Studio. What that means in English is that you can configure it to run your unit tests as you are typing your code. You can configure it to run the unit tests that are impacted by the changes you make so you aren't running the entire suite of unit tests. This is very handy, especially if you have good code coverage. It even collects code coverage numbers and performance metrics. More information can be found on the website: https://www.ncrunch.net.

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