Unit Testing Tutorials and Videos
In this episode we will continue our series on how to create a build script using the NAnt build tool. In this episode we will build off the script of Part 1 and add in the ability to run NUnit tests within our script. You can get the script for …
Typically we address the problem of testing an AJAX application through a plethora of big end-to-end tests and (hopefully) high unit-test coverage. In our presentation, we’d like to outline the main problems with this approach. Testing through the GUI is expensive, gives limited insight into the system, and often take …
Whenever unit-tests are written, chances are good that the code is not isolated. Many tests run against a given class/interface/function. The design didn’t consider isolating the dependencies of this function, which makes tests slower, larger, less focused, and likely depending on external dependencies (e.g. database access) which decreases the reliability. …
In this third episode, Stephen Walther and Charlie Poole build tests that verify that their blog can return blog entries. They build unit tests for the case when there are no entries returned and the case when a single entry is returned. http://www.asp.net/learn/mvc-videos/video-407.aspx
In this second episode, Stephen Walther and Charlie Poole create the ASP.NET MVC application with Visual Studio and run their first unit tests with NUnit. Charlie Poole explains that you can take shorter or longer steps when testing depending on your confidence level. http://www.asp.net/learn/mvc-videos/video-406.aspx
Unit testing means different things to different people. To Agile developers, it enables Test Driven Development. To researchers, it enables test generation from static and dynamic analysis. To others, it’s a means to test protocols, APIs, and other functionality below the presentation layer. Others still see it as a means …
