I’ve written a few articles about unit testing on this blog, but so far they’ve been about how to go about doing so and what supporting libraries/frameworks are available. Now I want to look at why unit testing is a good idea. In particular, this article will focus on the business perspective. Many software developers Read more…
At the end of my previous article Pros and Cons of Using the C assert Macro for Unit Testing in C/C++ I promised to follow up with an article summarising the popular unit testing libraries/frameworks. In this article I will give that summary: For the .NET languages there is NUnit. Although the source code is Read more…
This is a short follow-up to my recent article A Very Simple Introduction to Unit Testing. In that article I described the development of a very simple unit test for a very simple C++ class. To do this I used the C/C++ assert() macro, saying the following about it: "…although assert wasn’t originally intended for Read more…
Much present day commercial software development – probably the majority of it – claims to be object oriented, and at the centre of object oriented software is the object. So, what is an object? Unfortunately, the word object seems to have joined the ranks of the buzzwords. It seems to have become one of those Read more…