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 ...

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 ...

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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, ...

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 ...

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