Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2012 Unleashed, Second Edition

Chapter 9. Testing Code

In This Chapter

• Unit Testing Basics

• The Unit Testing Framework

• Writing ASP.NET Hosted Unit Tests

• Creating Ordered Tests

Developers have always been responsible for testing their code before it is released to testers or users. In years past, this meant walking through every line of code in the debugger (including all conditions and errors). To do so, you often had to create test-harness applications that mimicked the functionality required to execute your code. Stepping through all your code in a debugger made for a fine goal but was not always realized (and very difficult to verify). In fact, the entire exercise was often skipped during code changes and updates. In addition, this process made it difficult to ...