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In this episode, Robert is joined by Phil Japikse, who explores how in modern development practices, unit testing is part of the development process, not a chore to be tackled after you write your code.

Phil spends most of the time on Test Driven Development (aka Test Driven Design), where you write a test first and then write just enough code to pass the test and then refine the code as you add more tests. In TDD, the tests embody the requirements the code must satisfy.  

He also briefly covers Behavior Driven Development [50:20] and Mocks [53:45].

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    Xterminator

    Very informative. This series is going to be great, can't wait.:D

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    Adam

    This was a informative video but I still have questions. I have watched a bunch of tutorial videos on how to test 3 + 1 = 4 but I am having trouble implementing tests into my projects. How do I test my repositories that get data from a database?

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    japikse

    @Adam: testing repose is more about integration testing. To test the code that uses the repos, you need to mock out the repos, as we briefly discussed. You can also use xUnit to test your repos, but keep in mind the performance hit, keeping the database state consistent between test runs, and many other factors that come into play with integration tests. You can write a test that gets records and asserts what was returned, just as you test 3+1=4.

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    Adam

    @japikse Thank you so much. I finally got one to work. I was trying to over complicate the test. Thanks again for the help.

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    Gabriel

    Thanks for the video. Machine Specs looks pretty cool. Understand that this video was all about unit testing but there is a brief discussion about integration tests ~@54:29. Philip mentions that he would show how one could have integration tests running against a db. Is this going to be covered on another episode? If not, could you share your thoughts/tools/materials on how to do it?

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    japikse

    @Gabriel, my apologies.  We did say we would get back to that, and never did.  That happens on live shows sometimes.  I bet we can do one on integration testing with xUnit, MSpec, and MOQ next time I'm in Redmond.  Let me talk to @Robert about that.

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    Doctor Who

    This looks like its going to be a great series. Looking forward to it. I use unit tests in my own, personal projects. Work is somewhat of a different matter. There's lots of reasons for that, but I don't think you want to hear them. Bottom line, on newer projects we do use MS Test. Still learning the practice, though. For example, we had to spend a lot of time trying to get to 100% code coverage on some projects, which meant writing lots of low effective tests (e.g.: testing that an int property, when assigned, returned the assigned value). Oh well, we're getting there.

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    Nick

    "You have to learn wax on wax off before you start on the katas" - love it.

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