Book Review: The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net

This is interesting book and it was written by Roy Osherove, he is chief architect on Typemock Isolator product. Despite that fact the book is very balanced (I didn't expected that, but it really is) and it covers probably all  open-source testing frameworks available up to the date. It is very valuable source of information with regard to software development.

In particular I like how each library is described, compared and strong/weak points are presented. So this is a place there all the best practices are presented in one place.

I should not say that the book also describes the reasons why do we need to do unit testing, how to do it correctly, common mistakes and some recommendations on how to apply TDD style in your enterprise.

If you are new to such concepts as SOLID, IoC frameworks, Mocking - here you can find great examples of these techniques.

To sum up, I think this book deserves 4.5/5. It is not very thick, so you'll be able to read it in a couple of days and that's great.

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