Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit - Softcover

Hunt, Andy; Thomas, Dave

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0974514020 ISBN 13: 9780974514024

Publisher: O′Reilly, 2004

Synopsis

Learn how to improve your C# coding skills using unit testing. Despite it's name, unit testing is really a coding technique, not a testing technique. Unit testing is done by programmers, for programmers. It's primarily for our benefit: we get improved confidence in our code, better ability to make deadlines, less time spent in the debugger, and less time beating on the code to make it work correctly.This book shows how to write tests, but more importantly, it goes where other books fear to tread and gives you concrete advice and examples of what to test--the common things that go wrong in all of our programs. Discover the tricky hiding places where bugs breed, and how to catch them using the freely available NUnit framework. It's easy to learn how to think of all the things in your code that are likely to break. We'll show you how with helpful mnemonics, summarized in a handy tip sheet (also available from our www.pragmaticprogrammer.com website).With this book you will:

• Write better code, and take less time to write it
• Discover the tricky places where bugs breed
• Learn how to think of all the things that could go wrong
• Test individual pieces of code without having to include the whole project
• Test effectively with the whole team

We'll also cover how to use Mock Objects for testing, how to write high quality test code, and how to use unit testing to improve your design skills. We'll show you frequent "gotchas"--along with the fixes--to save you time when problems come up.But the best part is that you don't need a sweeping mandate to change your whole team or your whole company. You don't need to adopt Extreme Programming, or Test-Driven Development, or change your development process in order to reap the proven benefits of unit testing. You can start unit testing, the pragmatic way, right away.

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Review

""Using the approaches described by Dave and Andy you can reduce greatly the number of defects you put into your code. The result will be faster development of better programs. Try these techniques""--Ron Jeffries, www.XProgramming.com""Andy and Dave have created an excellent, practical and (of course) very pragmatic guide to unit-testing, illustrated with plenty of examples using the latest version of NUnit.""--Charlie Poole, NUnit framework developer""The Pragmatic Programmers have done it again with this highly useful guide. Aimed directly at C# programmers using the most popular unit-testing package for the language, it goes beyond the basics to show what you should test and how you should test it. Recommended for all .NET developers.""--Mike Gunderloy, Contributing Editor, ADT Magazine

From the Publisher

Improve your C# coding skills using unit testing: it's really all about coding, not testing. This book shows not just how to test, but what to test. Discover the tricky hiding places where bugs breed, and how to catch them using NUnit. You don't need to adopt Extreme Programming, or Test-Driven Development in order to reap the proven benefits of unit testing, the pragmatic way. Volume II of the Pragmatic Starter Kit.

Edition details

• Publisher: O′Reilly
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0974514020
• ISBN 13: 9780974514024
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 176