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Test-Driven Development in Microsoft .NET [Paperback]

James W. Newkirk (Author), Alexei A. Vorontsov (Author)
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With the clarity and precision intrinsic to the Test-Driven Development (TDD) process itself, experts James Newkirk and Alexei Vorontsov demonstrate how to implement TDD principles and practices to drive lean, efficient coding—and better design. The best way to understand TDD is to see it in action, and Newkirk and Vorontsov walk step by step through TDD and refactoring in an n-tier, .NET-connected solution. And, as members of the development team for NUnit, a leading unit-testing framework for Microsoft .NET, the authors can offer matchless insights on testing in this environment—ultimately making their expertise your own.

Test first—and drive ambiguity out of the development process:

  • Document your code with tests, rather than paper
  • Use test lists to generate explicit requirements and completion criteria
  • Refactor—and improve the design of existing code
  • Alternate programmer tests with customer tests
  • Change how you build UI code—a thin layer on top of rigorously tested code
  • Use tests to make small, incremental changes—and minimize the debugging process
  • Deliver software that’s verifiable, reliable, and robust
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3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing but still decent, Sep 29 2004
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I was really looking forward to this book as a complement to Kent Beck's more generic book on test-driven development. I was hoping it would cover a lot of "real-world" issue like web page development, databases, web services, etc.

To be fair, the book did try to cover these, but didn't do a great job of it. The database access layer was just plain boring to read through and the web page development chapter was thin on content. I was actually surprised how short the book was - about 170 pages actually covering the problems discussed. I also felt the ratio of code to discussion was too high. Lots of code, then 'the tests passed so we move on'...

I would love to see a book with better coverage of test-driven web development in .NET and perhaps with discussions of mock objects. I still think this is a decent book, partly because I am not aware of a direct competitor.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars 7/10, July 18 2004
This review is from: Test-Driven Development in Microsoft .NET (Paperback)
I give this book seven out of ten

What I liked about it:
It is easily to read. The topics are well presented and clearly defined.
The book introduces the concepts behind TDD (Test Driven Development)
Some of the less trivial aspects of TDD are discussed, like testing web services or using transactions.
Refactoring is introduced very well in chapter three.
The concepts of FIT are well explained and demonstrated.

In order to get a ten:
The book needs to decide who the target audience is. The material seemed too hard for a first introduction book and too simple for advanced developers.
As the book is about TDD it should have spent more time examining the benefits of developing software using this approach.
I would have liked to have seen more real world (hard to solve) problems tackled.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great intro to TDD and more, July 7 2004
This review is from: Test-Driven Development in Microsoft .NET (Paperback)
This books fits in fine with our recent search of .net enterprise devlopment material and we have out it to good use. Some of the chapters seem out of place.
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