Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit: The Pragmatic Starter Kit - Volume II by Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas, Matt Hargett, Matt Hargett (With)

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Pragmatic programmers use feedback to drive their development and personal processes. The most valuable feedback you can get while coding comes from unit testing.

Without good tests in place, coding can become a frustrating game of "whack-a-mole." That's the carnival game where the player strikes at a mechanical mole; it retreats and another mole pops up on the opposite side of the field. The moles pop up and down so fast that you end up flailing your mallet helplessly as the moles continue to pop up where you least expect them.

You don't test a bridge by driving a single car over it right down the middle lane on a clear, calm day. Yet many programmers approach testing that same way --- one pass right down the middle and they call it "tested." Pragmatic programmers can do better than that!

Real unit testing will make your life easier. It will make your designs better and drastically reduce the amount of time you spend debugging.

New for the Second Edition:
-Updated for NUnit 2.4 (.NET 2.0, Visual Studio 2005, and Mono)
-More assert methods
-New String and Collection assertion support
-Better support for multiple-platform development (Mono and .NET)
-Higher-level setup and teardown fixtures
...and more!

With this book, you will:
-Write better code, faster
-Discover the best hiding places where bugs breed
-Learn how to think of all the things that could go wrong
-Test pieces of code without using the whole project
-Use NUnit to simplify your test code
-Test effectively with the whole team

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