Chapter 6. Unit Tests and BAM

This chapter introduces Unit Testing and Business Activity Monitoring (BAM). These will be added to the current solution to make it more stable and maintainable, as well as to provide visibility. Unit Testing and BAM are critical components to any BizTalk solution because they both provide understanding and monitoring. Unit Tests allow developers to understand how a solution is meant to work and to run it for themselves. BAM provides visibility that can be tailored to the technical or business aspects of a solution.

What are unit tests?

We can already see that dropping the test files manually and inspecting the results is tedious and error prone. It also requires intimate knowledge about the expected behavior of the ...

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