Re: C#, .NET, and Unit Testing

From:

"Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com>

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comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Wed, 12 May 2010 23:42:35 -0700

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Arved Sandstrom wrote:

grasp06110 wrote:

Hi Everybody,

I am in an unfortunate situation where I need to work on a C# project
for a while. We are using Visual Studio 2005. The code I need to
work on is a C# desktop application with no unit testing what so
ever.

Is there anyone out there that has made this transition? What are
the best bits of advice you can offer someone who is going through
it? Specifically, what tools would you recommend for Unit Testing? For
an IDE? Am I hopelessly tied to what every my company is willing to
pay for wrt what IDE I use? I miss Eclipse more than words can tell.
Just goes to show you don't appreciate water until your well runs dry
(at least that's what I learned from Etta James).

Thanks,
John

I don't call it an unfortunate situation when I "have to" work on C#.
It's at least as good as Java, certainly not worse, and anyway all of
us are professional developers, not dilettantes who get to pick what
language we use.

I've used Visual Studio Web Developer or Visual C# as IDEs. These are
excellent IDEs, and you won't be suffering through the same kind of
glitches as you get with Eclipse. As for testing, I've used NUnit,
works just fine.

Is there only one NUnit now? At the time I needed one (back in 2002 or
so), there were about four at SourceForge. I picked the one that looked
like it had had the most work done on it, and it was fine.

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