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The Art of Unit Testing
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The Art of Unit Testing

by Roy Osherove
May 2009
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
8h 28m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 6. Test hierarchies and organization

This chapter covers

  • Running unit tests during automated nightly builds
  • Using continuous integration for automated builds
  • Organizing tests in a solution
  • Exploring test class inheritance patterns

Unit tests are as important to an application as the production source code. As with the regular code, you need to give careful thought to where the tests reside, both physically and logically, in relation to the code under test. If you put the tests in the wrong place, the tests you’ve written so carefully may not be run.

Similarly, if you don’t devise ways to reuse parts of your tests, create utility methods for testing, or use test hierarchies, you’ll end up with test code that’s either unmaintainable ...

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