When C++ was created, software testing wasn't as widely practiced as it is today. In most cases, the testing phase started when the software hit the production environment. This discipline is ...

Mark Michaelis walks you through the Visual Studio tooling and project setup you'll need to get the most out of your JavaScript unit testing. As I detailed in my recent article "A TypeScript Primer," ...

The idea of unit testing has been around for many years. Test early, test often is a mantra that concerns unit testing as well. By using stubs, developers can test code under realistic and controlled ...

Diffblue, a spin-out from Oxford University, uses machine learning to help developers automatically create unit tests for their Java code. Because few developers enjoy writing unit tests to ensure ...

When I was managing software development, one of the messiest and least efficient areas was the system test region that was set up so programmers could unit test their applications. In the fray of ...

Brendan Higgins recently proposed adding unit tests to the Linux kernel, supplementing other development infrastructure such as perf, autotest and kselftest. The whole issue of testing is very dear to ...

Microsoft and OpenAI, in collaboration with GitHub, have developed the Copilot extension, an AI-powered code optimization and completion tool. It can help developers by suggesting blocks or even lines ...

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We often need to write unit tests for code that accesses an external resource such as a database or a file file system. If such resources are not available, the only way to ensure that the tests can ...