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Vladimir Khorikov

January 2020
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Unit Testing Principles, Patterns and Practices shows you how to refine your existing unit tests by implementing modern best practices. You’ll learn to spot which tests are performing, which need refactoring, and which need to be deleted entirely! Upgrade your testing suite with new testing styles, good patterns, and reliable automated testing.

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Great testing practices will help maximize your project quality and delivery speed. Wrong tests will break your code, multiply bugs, and increase time and costs. You owe it to yourself—and your projects—to learn how to do excellent unit testing to increase your productivity and the end-to-end quality of your software.

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Unit Testing Principles, Patterns and Practices teaches you to design and write tests that target the domain model and other key areas of your code base. In this clearly written guide, you learn to develop professional-quality test suites, safely automate your testing process, and integrate testing throughout the application life cycle. As you adopt a testing mindset, you’ll be amazed at how better tests cause you to write better code.

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Universal guidelines to assess any unit test
Testing to identify and avoid anti-patterns
Refactoring tests along with the production code
Using integration tests to verify the whole system

about the reader

For readers who know the basics of unit testing. The C# examples apply to any language.

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Vladimir Khorikov is an author, blogger, and Microsoft MVP. He has mentored numerous teams on the ins and outs of unit testing.

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This book is an indispensable resource.

Greg Wright, Kainos Software Ltd.

Serves as a valuable and humbling encouragement to double down and test well, something we need no matter how experienced we may be.

Mark Nenadov, BorderConnect

I wish I had this book twenty years ago when I was starting my career in software development.

Conor Redmond, Incomm Product Control

This is the kind of book on unit testing I have been waiting on for a long time.

Jeremy Lange, G2

“Great introduction into the topic of unit testing. The examples for bad and good Unit Tests and the relation to the code design is very good. It was pleasant to read and understandable even for non native english speaker. Recommended for Software engineers which are suffering with Mocking-Style Unit Tests.”

“I wish I've read this book before... In most projects, testing code and testing strategies are undervalued. This book highlights strategies and practices that will make your testing shine! And if your testing shines your production code will shine. It doesn't really matter where you are with your production code, if the testing code is not ok, you production code will decay and there will be no way to stop the decay.

I would also mention the structure of the book, examples and the way of explaining concepts which make it an easy ready, easy to understand and easy to apply in real life.”

“Excellent overview of unit tests, why we write them and what can make them valuable versus a hindrance. Also surprisingly has some architecture stuff in there — in service of more testable code.”

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