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title: "The Art Of Unit Testing - Starting out My First Book"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/8/24/the-art-of-unit-testing-starting-out-my-first-book.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/8/24/the-art-of-unit-testing-starting-out-my-first-book.html"
published: "2006-08-24T18:04:00"
updated: "2006-08-24T18:04:00"
tags: ["Agile", "Agile Related", "Art Of Unit Testing"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I'm happy to announce my new Book Project : \"The Art Of Unit Testing\". The book will use examples in .NET, but it should be general enough so that any java or C++ developer should be able to read it and learn things.…"
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# The Art Of Unit Testing - Starting out My First Book

By Roy Osherove August 24, 2006 In [Agile](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile), [Agile Related](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile-related), [Art Of Unit Testing](https://osherove.com/blog/category/art-of-unit-testing)

**Historical article** · Originally published August 24, 2006; technical details may be outdated.

I'm happy to announce my new Book Project : "The Art Of Unit Testing".

The book will use examples in .NET, but it should be general enough so that any java or C++ developer should be able to read it and learn things.

I'll talk more about the book's contents in future posts.

I'll be writing the book for Manning, and it should hopefully be out in time for Tech-Ed US, Next year (Spring 2007). I hope to blog about my experiences writing the book, and to share the readers with parts of it, as they come in. I'll also use this blog to consult, get feedback and share information from the book.

As a smart person once said "this should be interesting.."

Here's to a great start! I'm writing chapter 1 these days :)

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/