27 February 2008
The Best Unit Testing Resources: Beginner to Expert
Posted by Mikhail Esteves under: General .
Software development is a bit like religion. People tend pick a side, and there they stay; sometimes for life. Each sect has certain accepted beliefs, and to consider ideas outside these is heresy. Because of this, it’s extremely tough to get a lot of developers in agreement about something. And when this does happen, you should sit up and take notice.
In the last few years, unit testing has emerged as one of the Good Ideas of our craft. Support for this has grown to as near to unanimous as you could ask for. The last idea that reached this level of consensus was source control in the mid 90s, something that has obviously stuck around. Unit testing very well may be one of the lasting ideas of this decade.