Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Craig S. Smith, Eye on AI host and former NYT writer, covers AI. Software development is a creative endeavor, but it can be filled ...

Unit testing—the process of testing the smallest possible piece of code that can run—has been around for a long time. Unfortunately, Visual Studio itself has never provided this functionality to ...

In Chapter 1 of Effective Unit Testing, Koskela mixes brief historical testing anecdotes with basic introductory material and often-cited reasons on why unit tests and automated tests are important ...

Just like production code, test code needs to be rigorously examined to ensure it’s clean and bug free. In this first half of a two-part article, Klaus Berg makes the case for why good unit tests are ...

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A lot of the unit testing that gets done doesn’t get done right. Now, what I mean by that isn’t that devs don’t know how to test their own functionality (though that’s really the subject of another ...

I personally find mock-everything unit-test to be of limited utility; I would try to use as much of the real code as possible. Reason being that a mock, in a way, assumes that the thing being mocked ...