The Art Of Unit Testing - Starting out My First Book

I'm happy to announce my new Book Project : "The Art Of Unit Testing".

The book will use examples in .NET, but it should be general enough so that any java or C++ developer should be able to read it and learn things.

I'll talk more about the book's contents in future posts.

I'll be writing the book for Manning, and it should hopefully be out in time for Tech-Ed US, Next year (Spring 2007). I hope to blog about my experiences writing the book, and to share the readers with parts of it, as they come in. I'll also use this blog to consult, get feedback and share information from the book.

As a smart person once said "this should be interesting.."

Here's to a great start! I'm writing chapter 1 these days :)

Published Thursday, August 24, 2006 9:04 PM by RoyOsherove
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Thursday, August 24, 2006 2:15 PM by Guy Burstein

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Hi, If you're looking for a review crew for your book, I'd love to take part in it. Same as I do in: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/bursteg/archive/2006/04/13/51.aspx Good Luck!
Thursday, August 24, 2006 2:28 PM by Gabriel Lozano-Morán

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Hello Roy I am looking forward to your new book. I can only imagine how hard it must be so I wish you all the best during the difficult times. I have subscribed to your RSS feed and hopefull I can help by giving feedback. Where can I pre-order the book :-) ?
Thursday, August 24, 2006 3:00 PM by Omer van Kloeten

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Congratulations! I'd love to read it :D Have you thought about writing it in Hebrew in parallel?
Thursday, August 24, 2006 5:20 PM by RoyOsherove

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Thanks guys,

I'm not going to do this in Hebrew because It's hard enough writing *one* version of the book :)

I'll contact review folks when the book gets to that stage.

Thanks for your support!

Roy.

Thursday, August 24, 2006 11:06 PM by Bil Simser

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Congrats and looking forward to it. There can never be enough books about this subject (and others) out there.

Friday, August 25, 2006 4:11 AM by Ken Egozi

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Great thing. Not enough good books on the subject, especially c#-ed. If needed, I'd could take part on reviewing chapters of your book. @ Roy and Omer: I am interested in doing the translation. It can wait to the book to be published, but I think that if you're into it, It would be better to do it "side by side" (in XP way ...) so it might be ready to the next Eilat Tech-Ed ...
Friday, August 25, 2006 5:54 AM by Wooseok

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I'm really looking forward to it. If you happen to need a review, I;d love to part in. :-)
Friday, August 25, 2006 10:29 AM by Jeff

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Sounds like a great project, Ray. I'd love to review as well and be on that side of the process. The reviewers saved my life when I did my book!

I hope you'll include a fair amount of ASP.NET specific information. I still don't have any easy ways to test custom Web controls, for example.

Friday, August 25, 2006 12:00 PM by Ryan

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Congratulations Roy! I'm always on the lookout for great technical books that I can buy for my coworkers and this is one area we truly need help in! I look forward to it.
Friday, August 25, 2006 2:04 PM by Jan Van Ryswyck

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You made my day with this announcement. Congratulations! I can't wait to get my hands on this book. I'd be honoured if I could review some stuff.
Monday, August 28, 2006 7:16 AM by Chavez

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Hi Roy, the time couldn't be better! I'm really looking forward to your book. I'm curious to see the "growing" of it. :) BTW great idea to create a feed just for the book. *subscribed* Somewhere I read you'll need folks to review your book. ;) Well, I raise my hand in advance. ;)
Monday, August 28, 2006 7:59 AM by flipdoubt

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I'll be reading it too. Have you guys checked out NSpec? http://nspec.tigris.org/