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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unit testing is as an integral part of extreme programming, and many open source tools and frameworks help developers write unit tests. IDE plug-ins can create skeleton unit test cases, and Ant tasks ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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