I noticed that talking about TDD hardly works. People like to see raw results. Saying that “writing tests will reduce development time” is most likely true, but it might not be enough to get anybody ...

Try to keep units small, use appropriate tools, and pair-up programmers and tester; these are suggestions from Adrian Bolboacă for writing good unit tests. Unit testing is a mixture of programming and ...

C# Corner columnist Patrick Steele says writing unit tests can be a time-consuming chore. He looks at some approaches that can make writing unit tests easier and more efficient for C# programmers.

More often than not, enterprise code is badly unit tested or worse, not unit tested. While the reasons for this could vary from time constraints, budget constraints or lack of developer knowledge, ...

When unit tests fail, they should clearly explain why. Take advantage of the Fluent Assertions library to write unit test methods that are simple, readable, concise, and expressive. Unit testing is an ...

If good test coverage is the key to writing quality code, test-driven development (TDD) is the simplest means of achieving it. TDD is a software development approach that flips conventional wisdom on ...

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Brendan Higgins recently proposed adding unit tests to the Linux kernel, supplementing other development infrastructure such as perf, autotest and kselftest. The whole issue of testing is very dear to ...

But I also think people miss-conceptualize unit testing.<BR><BR>Unit tests are not a form of specification.<BR><BR>Like substituting your answer back into the original equation when doing algebra with ...

Learn when static methods can’t be unit tested and how to use wrapper classes and the Moq and xUnit frameworks to unit test them when they can When building or working in .NET applications you might ...