Unit Test Best Practices
Writing good unit tests can be very tricky. There is a lot you have to take into account and it’s almost impossible to come up with good unit tests without practice or having read anything about it.
- How do we write (good) unit tests?
- What makes a unit test good?
- What should I be testing?
- When should I be writing unit tests?
This post shall help us to answer the questions above and provide us with a common understanding.
The main source of this article is from the book “the art of unit testing” (mostly copied directly) and from the author’s blog http://osherove.com/blog/
What makes a unit test good?
Before we can answer the how (we write good tests) we need to first define the what (a good unit tests is).
Definition
In his book, Roy refers to the system under test (SUT) or…
Vladimir Tasic
Tech writer. Senior Software Engineer in Microsoft technologies. Sharing my experience and what I learn.
