The Art Of Unit Testing - Download Chapter 1

I'm happy to announce that draft of chapter 1 from my upcoming book "The Art of Unit Testing" is available for download immediately - click here for the PDF. the book will also be available to download from Manning's home page.

Chapter summary:

Chapter 1 tries to give a better definition of what a unit test is, by first trying to understand what isn't a unit test (integration tests are often mistaken for unit tests). It also covers the basics of what makes a good unit test instead of just saying what any unit test might be. It also covers what unit test frameworks are, how they got started and what Test Driven Development is.

Book Site:

I'm also announcing the book site: http://the.artofunittesting.com/

During the writing of this book, I'll make more chapters available, though not all of them, for understandable reasons. You'll be able to read rough drafts of all chapters if you subscribe to manning's early access program, I'll let you know when my book is available there.

Your feedback is appreciated:

I welcome critics, comments, fixes, praise, incoming links and anything else you'd want to write to me about this chapter or the book site. Write an email to Comments@ArtOfUnitTesting.com .

Published Tuesday, October 10, 2006 10:03 PM by RoyOsherove

Comments

Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:27 PM by Kent Boogaart

# re: The Art Of Unit Testing - Download Chapter 1

Weird . . . pages 3 and 5 crash FoxIt PDF Reader. Did you UT the PDF? ;)
Wednesday, October 11, 2006 2:45 AM by Carel Lotz

# re: The Art Of Unit Testing - Download Chapter 1

Roy Are you aware of this up and coming book about unit test patterns? Do you see yourself overlapping a lot with this book's content? (see http://xunitpatterns.com/) Carel
Thursday, October 12, 2006 8:32 AM by Steve Culshaw

# re: The Art Of Unit Testing - Download Chapter 1

Yeap the PDF is crashing Foxit, even the new 2.0 version :-(
Thursday, October 12, 2006 12:10 PM by RoyOsherove

# re: The Art Of Unit Testing - Download Chapter 1

We're not sure what the problem may be.

In any case, the PDF has been recrested and uploaded with the same name.

try redownloading it if you had problems reading it..

Thanks,

Roy.

Thursday, October 12, 2006 7:21 PM by RoyOsherove

# re: The Art Of Unit Testing - Download Chapter 1

Carel:

Yes, I'm aware of that book, and I'm happy to say that my book will be different - in that it will contain diferent pieces of information, though it will include some patterns, it will mostly include best practices, techniques and guidelines.

It will not follow the "pattern" type of book, but will be more based on a project that grows over the course of the book.