A friend asked me, so I conclude someone might need a jumpstart on unit tests.
Here’s a short list of short (though very deep, if not best) intros.
- Except for JUnit cookbook (~2 pages) (which has a lot of “ports”, like CppUnit cookbook), I’d name:
- “Endo-Testing: Unit Testing with Mock Objects” at mockobjects.com (Tim Mackinnon, Steve Freeman, Philip Craig) (7 pages);
- “Mocks aren’t stubs” by Martin Fowler (about 7 pages);
For deeper dive, take a “xUnit patterns” book (this one is longer).
For Kent Beck’s book on TDD, shame on me - I never read it. Though after “XP explained” I don’t strive for reading his books.
// If you’re interested in XP and “XP explained” criticism, take a look at “Extreme Programming Considered Harmful for Reliable Software Development” by Gerald Keefer.
