Unit testing—the process of testing the smallest possible piece of code that can run—has been around for a long time. Unfortunately, Visual Studio itself has never provided this functionality to ...

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 ...

Just like production code, test code needs to be rigorously examined to ensure it’s clean and bug free. In this first half of a two-part article, Klaus Berg makes the case for why good unit tests are ...

Using unit tests can ensure functionality and save you time in the long run. We write a lot of unit tests at Hubstaff. Testing is something we have taken seriously from day one, and as a result it’s a ...

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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Dany Lepage discusses the architectural ...

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, ...

The idea of unit testing has been around for many years. "Test early, test often" is a mantra that concerns unit testing as well. However, in practice, not many software projects have the luxury of ...

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 ...