Test Review #3 – Unity
Historical article · Originally published March 22, 2009; technical details may be outdated.
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In this video I go over the tests for Microsoft Unity Application Block.
Overall the quality of the tests in Unity is pretty good! I could certainly recommend that people look at them as examples of a bunch of tests against a framework, which are mostly very readable and maintainable.
Things I walk through:
- Using [Ignore]
- exploration testing
- magic numbers and strings
- un-needed asserts
- Stub hard coded behavior
- handling config files in tests
- Asserts hidden in a utility method
- more naming conventions
- Separating integration tests
- “smart” code that is less readable
- Meaningless “isNotNull” tests
- cleaner ways of expecting exceptions
Lessons on this topic
- Unity Test Review · The Art of Unit Testing & TDD Master Class in .NET
- Unit Testing Best Practices · TDD in .NET in Hebrew