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 ...

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 ...

This Q&A is part of a weekly series of posts highlighting common questions encountered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange, a free, community-powered network of 90+ Q&A sites. I’ve ...

When working with applications, you will often want to know the memory allocation, garbage collection (GC) overhead, and throughput of the code. Your application might be slow, or it might be ...

What makes a good unit test? That was the question posed recently on the Pragmatic Programmer's mailing list. Reader David Bock related a story about a test that suddenly started failing during a late ...

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 ...

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, ...