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 ...

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 ...

Unit testing — a form of software testing done by developers using hundreds of small, fast tests — is a central practice at sites that are committed to software quality. By following a dictum of “unit ...

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 ...

Diffblue, a spin-out from Oxford University, uses machine learning to help developers automatically create unit tests for their Java code. Because few developers enjoy writing unit tests to ensure ...

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, ...

Artificial intelligence can be a huge help to humans writing unit testing scripts. Software development is a creative endeavor, but it can be filled with tedious tasks. Most mundane of all is writing ...

This book shows how to understand what application you want to write, what strategies are likely to get you there, and then how to measure your level of success. This book offers practical, concrete ...