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Hello and welcome to Unit Testing in C#.
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One of the keys to creating quality
software is testing it thoroughly.
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There are many ways to test software.
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While you may have some idea of
what it means to test software.
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You may not be familiar with unit testing.
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Unit testing is considered an essential
part of the software development process.
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And it's the type of testing that software
developers are most involved with.
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Because it requires an intimate
knowledge of the code being tested.
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In unit testing,
we look at our code one unit at a time and
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test that unit thoroughly to
verify that it works as expected.
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When solving a problem, it's always easier
to split the problem up into smaller parts
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and solve each of the sub problems first.
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This is the key to designing software.
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Just one of the many benefits
of designing software this way
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is that we can then verify that each of
the sub problems has in fact been solved.
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And we can test them independently
from the rest of the software.
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Once we've completed our test,
we can be confident that the code for
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solving that problem will work as expected
when combined with the rest of the system.
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This is why this type of
testing is called unit testing.
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We test each unit of code independently.
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You may be wondering what
is considered a unit?
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There is no set definition
of what a unit is.
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It often depends on how
the software is architected and
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which programming language is used.
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In object oriented programming in C#, each
class is typically considered a unit but
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a unit could be something as
small as a single method.
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When designing and coding, we break up
the software into units of responsibility.
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For example think about the list
class provided by .NET.
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It can be thought of as a single unit.
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In order to verify that the list
class does what's expected,
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we need to test each and every
operation that the list class provides.
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This means testing to make sure that
every method in it works properly.
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When designing software,
we need to design it to be unit testable.
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This means splitting it
up into composable parts.
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Fortunately, following good object
oriented design principles makes your code
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unit testable at the same time.
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