---
title: "The Art Of Unit Testing - Help me choose a book cover"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/9/18/the-art-of-unit-testing-help-me-choose-a-book-cover.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/9/18/the-art-of-unit-testing-help-me-choose-a-book-cover.html"
published: "2007-09-18T17:50:34"
updated: "2007-09-18T17:50:34"
tags: ["Agile", "Agile Related", "Art Of Unit Testing", "Unit Testing"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Here's a question for those of you who are interested in my upcoming book . You can influence my decision on choosing the book cover design. The book will be available for purchase as part of the Manning Early Access…"
usage: "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/"
---

# The Art Of Unit Testing - Help me choose a book cover

By Roy Osherove September 18, 2007 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), [Unit Testing](https://osherove.com/blog/category/unit-testing)

**Historical article** · Originally published September 18, 2007; technical details may be outdated.

Here's a question for those of you who are interested in [my upcoming book](http://the.artofunittesting.com/). You can influence my decision on choosing the book cover design.

The book will be available for purchase as part of the Manning Early Access Program ([MEAP](http://www.manning.com/about/meap.html)) which means you can purchase and get the chapters as I write them (currently five exist).

I'll present 6 possible designs (We can come up with more if none of these are well liked) and a short poll where you choose your favorite ones:

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Now please answer which are your favorites (you can select more than one):

**Poll:**

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- Sep 21, 2007

    ### [XUnit.NET aims to be the Next NUnit, but it's too soon](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/9/21/xunitnet-aims-to-be-the-next-nunit-but-its-too-soon.html)

- Sep 18, 2007

    ### [TDD Pattern: Composite Logic Development and Testing](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/9/18/tdd-pattern-composite-logic-development-and-testing.html)

- Sep 16, 2007

    ### [Mocks and Stubs - The difference is in the flow of information](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/9/16/mocks-and-stubs-the-difference-is-in-the-flow-of-information.html)


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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/