Windows Phone 7 Test Guidance Survey

Do you unit test, use MVVM, or use dependency injection?

1. Do you currently unit test your Windows Phone 7 Applications?

Do you currently unit test your Windows Phone 7 Applications? Yes

2. If you don't test your Windows Phone 7 applications, please indiciate why not.

If you don't test your Windows Phone 7 applications, please indiciate why not. Too difficult

See little value

Phone API's are not test friendly

Lack of clear documentation

As a developer I don't write unit tests

Not enough resources on my team to write tests

Too time consuming

Don't know how

Don't see the need to write tests for phone applications

3. If you do perform testing what types do you do?

If you do perform testing what types do you do? Unit testing

Manual ad hoc testing

Manual testing following a script

Usability testing

Profiling application

4. patterns & practices is currently working to make the testing of Windows Phone 7 code much easier. If you were provided reusable interfaces, fakes, and other testing assest that made testing easier and faster to code, would you take advantage of these assets and start testing your Windows Phone 7 applications?

patterns & practices is currently working to make the testing of Windows Phone 7 code much easier. If you were provided reusable interfaces, fakes, and other testing assest that made testing easier and faster to code, would you take advantage of these assets and start testing your Windows Phone 7 applications? Yes

5. Do you use the MVVM pattern in your Windows Phone 7 applications?

Do you use the MVVM pattern in your Windows Phone 7 applications? Yes

6. Do you inject your dependencies or create them inside your code-behind files and/or view models?

Do you inject your dependencies or create them inside your code-behind files and/or view models? Use dependency injection

Create dependencies inside code-behind or view model

7. Many of the Windows Phone 7 API's are accessed using static classes. Do you wrap these static classes to make them more testable or just use the static class in your code-behind or view model.

Many of the Windows Phone 7 API's are accessed using static classes. Do you wrap these static classes to make them more testable or just use the static class in your code-behind or view model. Use static classes

Wrap static class to make their use testable

8. If you us a dependency injection container, which one are you using?

If you us a dependency injection container, which one are you using? Funq

Ninject

Autofac

Wrote my own

Wish I could use Unity (feature request)

9. Would you be interested in Windows Phone 7 Guidance from patterns & practices on any of the following items?

Would you be interested in Windows Phone 7 Guidance from patterns & practices on any of the following items? Writing testable code

Implementing MVVM

Testing Window Phone 7 application

Using an dependency injection container

Improving the performance of your application

10. Please provide any additional feedback or guidance requests related to testing, MVVM, dependency injection, or other Windows Phone 7 programming topics.

Please provide any additional feedback or guidance requests related to testing, MVVM, dependency injection, or other Windows Phone 7 programming topics.