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Discussion on: The Short Term Benefits of Unit Tests

 
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Beekey Cheung

I'm a big fan of stock testing frameworks. Go and Python have decent ones.

I've worked with others, but one thing I really appreciate is simplicity. Granted, Go's testing framework is so bare bones it doesn't come with assertion functions, but that doesn't bother me that much.

I think complexity in set up or in trying to create the first test creates a lot of resistance to newcomers from building unit tests. Go and Python get you started in minutes. Frameworks tend to take a few hours at a minimum. They also have more random "gotchas" that result in lots of time on stack overflow.

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James Richmond

I work with Typemock Isolator for C# - it's a very simple and user friendly tool, that allows you to perform unit testing by mocking almost anything you need.
It didn't take me a lot of time at all to understated how to work with it.
Have you heard about it?