---
title: "Uncle bob and the Art of Unit Testing"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2009/8/11/uncle-bob-and-the-art-of-unit-testing.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2009/8/11/uncle-bob-and-the-art-of-unit-testing.html"
published: "2009-08-11T16:28:53"
updated: "2009-08-11T16:28:53"
tags: [".NET", "Agile"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Before my book came out, I sent a copy over to Robert Martin. the guy in the agile circles these days (and for many years!) I wanted him to read it and give me a quote about the book I can use. Well, it took some time…"
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/"
---

# Uncle bob and the Art of Unit Testing

By Roy Osherove August 11, 2009 In [.NET](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net), [Agile](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile)

**Historical article** · Originally published August 11, 2009; technical details may be outdated.

Before [my book](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1933988274/iserializable-20) came out, I sent a copy over to Robert Martin. **the** guy in the agile circles these days (and for many years!)

I wanted him to read it and give me a quote about the book I can use. Well, it took some time but he came back with a quote I’d love to use and I’m really proud of:

**[Uncle Bob:](http://www.objectmentor.com/omTeam/martin_r.html)**

"This is one of the best soup-to-nuts books on TDD that I've seen.  It starts at the beginning, but takes no prisoners as it logically and inexorably moves to ever more advanced topics."

Awesome! I am truly honored.

Now I need to figure out a way to put it [on the amazon book page…](https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1933988274/iserializable-20)

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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/