.NET TDD Roundup #1

This is .NET TDD roundup #1.

The .NET TDD roundup aggregates information of interest to .NET developers using TDD/BDD. If you have something interesting you have done or have run across, please send me the URL with a brief description via the contact link on my blog.

Test-Driven Development

• Writing Testable Code – Isa Goksu writes about writing testable code.
• Moving to Test-Driven Development and Exploring Language Paradigms – Eric Hagan interviews Michael Feathers.
• The Problem with xUnit – Edward Z. Yang writes about why he believes that xUnit test frameworks lead to more boilerplate code and how to use Haskell to create DSL-like tests with QuickCheck.
• Some Rough Draft TDD Demonstration Videos – Brett Schuchert is doing a series of video on TDD. He already published rough drafts of his videos.

Unit Test Frameworks

NUnit

• NUnit 2.5.5 released – Charlie Poole released version 2.5.5 of NUnit last Friday. It can be downloaded from here.
• NUnit Template for ASP.NET MVC 2 – Markus Ewald ported the MSTest unit test templates for ASP.NET MVC 2 to NUnit. It isn’t ready though: it doesn’t add a reference to the ASP.NET project. Details can be found on the NUnit-Discuss mailing list.

MbUnit

• XML Assertions in MbUnit v3 – Yann Trévin writes about new assertions in the upcoming MbUnit 3.2 which will help with testing XML output.

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