I had a fantastic unit testing experience at work today. A couple of days ago I released a DLL to production that scans some text and transforms part of the text according to certain rules. An example of this would be the text that users enter into a forum post. Users would enter [b]some text[/b] and...
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I like Roy Osherove 's restaurant analogy of Unit Testing vs. Integration Testing : When it comes to paying for a meal... Integration testing is like giving one big check to the group, with everyone having to calculate on their own how much they need to pay. sometimes everyone things they are good, but...
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I have a web site that gets a bit of traffic and I log exceptions on that site. Nothing exciting or special, a sort of Log4Net but home grown and speciliazed for the site. The log recently showed an index out of range exception. When I saw the exception I kicked myself for not having the foresight to also log all the options, parameters and data that the user had input so that I could reproduce the error. This got me thinking...
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