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 ...

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 ...

In this video, I'm going to teach you how to write unit tests in Python using a module called Pytest. It's a skill you'll need to know if you write code in Python, and fortunately, it's relatively ...

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 ...

Welcome to Visual Studio Magazine's new online column on Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System (VSTS). Twice a month I will introduce you to concepts in VSTS, for beginners and professionals alike.

I'm taking a break from my usual "tutorial-like" columns to talk about how I actually enjoy writing automated unit tests and the positive, psychological effect it has on me during my day-to-day ...

Learn when static methods can’t be unit tested and how to use wrapper classes and the Moq and xUnit frameworks to unit test them when they can When building or working in .NET applications you might ...

It's important to start tests with a clean session, especially when writing unit tests and creating mocks. Here's how to run Pester tests in a completely new PowerShell process. Writing unit tests in ...