Developer Testing and /Glover26 Jun 2006 05:41 pm
The War and Peace of test methods
Russ Olsen, a developer at Reston based FGM wrote an interesting piece on 5 best practices for writing a unit test. I especially like #4- Don’t write the War and Peace of test methods- how true!! Also too, long and complicated test methods usually point to long and complicated code under test.
July 1st, 2006 at 6:22 am
I especially like the advice of not catching too many exceptions in test code. Let the stack trace speak for itself in unit tests!
July 1st, 2006 at 11:58 am
Speaking of exceptions- check out these three articles which elaborate best practices associated with throwing, catching and creating custom exceptions. All three are excellent reads: