Pragmatic Testing in C# with NUnit hits the shelves
Pragmatic Testing in C# with NUnit, by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas, which has been available as a PDF for a while, is now available for purchase.
Andy is happy to note that it’s the only book to cover the new NUnit 2.2 features, thanks to a close collaboration with Charlie Poole (NUnit development team).Book description, from The Pragmatic Programmers:
"Pragmatic programmers use feedback to drive their development and personal processes. The most valuable feedback you can get while coding comes from unit testing.
Without good tests in place, coding can become a frustrating game of ‘whack-a-mole.’ That’s the carnival game where the player strikes at a mechanical mole; it retreats and another mole pops up on the opposite side of the field. The moles pop up and down so fast that you end up flailing your mallet helplessly as the moles continue to pop up where you least expect them.
You don’t test a bridge by driving a single car over it right down the middle lane on a clear, calm day. Yet many programmers approach testing that same way — one pass right down the middle and they call it ‘tested.’ Pragmatic programmers can do better than that!
Real unit testing will make your life easier. It will make your designs better and drastically reduce the amount of time you spend debugging."
Read [url=http://www.toolshed.com/blog/News/CSharpPrinted.html,v]Andy Hunt’s blog entry on the book[/url].
Purchase a copy.
