Unit Testing - how to get started?

[Administrator]

I have no experience in unit testing but think it may be time to learn. Our new application we're building is growing to be beyond anything we've ever done. With that said things have been found to be broken as development moves on, changes something. Because of this I think it would be wise to have something that can check existing functionality so I can sleep at night knowing the old stuff is still intact.

So for someone that knows nothing about unit testing, what can you offer? Should I go out and drop a grand on Automated QA's TestComplete? What are the better and more popular products? I want what works best, I'm not a freeware junkie, I use the best if it is affordable within reason. So NUnit or built-in test tools with VS.NET 2008, are they really the best to be using? Again, I quite frankly don't know what I'm talking about! LOL

Education on unit testing and suggested products would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[Pete (BSC)]

I'm in the same boat as you are and I just picked up a book: Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with Nunit. It's not VB; but, I thought the concepts could be applied to VB.NET.