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  Sunday, May 4, 2008

  TDD TestContext Unit Testing

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  From empirical evidence, we know that improving code coverage by verifying all the boundary conditions, and ensuring quality of code-base significantly enhances maintainability and comprehensibility of complex software systems. Therefore, writing effective unit and integration tests has become one of the integral part in software development life cycle. In fact, development methodology such as TDD has been embraced rapidly due to these realized benefits. In today's post, we talk more about TestContext of mstest. In particular, we focus on its usage in devising effective unit tests. Before moving forward, we would like to outline the previous posts of the series regarding Unit Testing.

  • Why is Unit Testing so important?
  • TDD in a Nutshell.

  What is TestContext?

  TestContext is an abstract class of Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting namespace. It exposed several properties related to the current context (i.e., current test run). In addition, it provides following supports: (read more)

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