- Table of Contents
- .NET Book Recommendations
- What Is .NET?
- The Microsoft .NET Framework
- The Common Language Runtime (CLR), the Common Type System (CTS), and the Common Language Specification (CLS)
- .NET Framework Class Library
- Visual Studio .NET
- .NET Enterprise Servers and .NET My Services
- .NET Compliant Languages
- C#
- Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET)
- ASP.NET
- XML Web Services
- ADO.NET
- XML.NET
- Windows Forms
- Why .NET?
- Displaying Errors with the Error Provider
- COM Interoperability
- Comparing Java and .NET
- Calling Unmanaged Code
- .NET Application Security
- Code Access Security
- .NET Standards Support
- Numeric Types in the .NET Framework
- Working with Strings
- Formatting Strings
- Trimming Character Strings
- Comparing Strings in .NET 2.0
- Arrays and Collections
- Arrays as Class Members
- Sorting a Multi-Dimensional Array
- Sorting a Multi-Dimensional Array with LINQ
- File I/O (System.IO)
- Working with File Names
- Using the File System
- Working with Files and Directories
- Monitoring the File System
- Working with Streams
- Working with Text Encodings
- Working with Date and Time
- Extending the DateTime Class
- Fun with Dates
- Exceptions
- Delegates
- Events
- Asynchronous Programming
- Asynchronous File I/O
- Timers
- Random Numbers
- Cryptographically Secure Random Numbers
- Serialization
- MultiThreading (System.Threading)
- Multi-Threading Overview
- The Managed Thread Pool
- Managed Threading
- Thread Synchronization
- Synchronizing Data Access
- Trace Debugging
- Tracing in .NET 2.0
- ASP.NET Trace
- Validating User Input in ASP.NET Web Pages
- Event Logging
- Monitoring Application Performance
- Accessing the Registry
- Accessing Environment Information
- Environment Variables in .NET 2.0
- Managing Windows Forms Applications
- Working with Email
- Working with Graphics
- Animating a Background
- Working with Images
- Drawing Cycloid Curves
- Simulating the Spirograph
- Building International Web Applications
- .NET Compact Framework
- Mobile Web Development with ASP.NET
- Speech Technologies
- Microsoft MapPoint Web Service
- Working with Typed DataSets
- Using Relationships in DataSets
- DataColumn Expressions
- Playing Simple Sounds
- Playing Sounds with .NET 2.0
- Returning an Image in a Web Page
- RSS
- Best Practices — Project Structure
- Best Practices — Application Blocks
- The Data Access Application Block
- The Exception Management Application Block
- Best Practices — Performance
- Best Practices — Performance and Scalability
- Best Practices - Testing
- Reading the Tea Leaves, 2005
- Predictions: A Look Back at 2005, and a Look Ahead to 2006
- .NET Downloads
- Application Deployment Overview
- Application Deployment — Versioning
- Application Deployment — Version Policy
- Application Deployment — Packaging and Distribution
- .NET Remoting Overview
- A Remoting Demonstration
- Remoting Configuration
- Remoting: Lifetimes and Leases
- Remoting: Other Issues
- Attributes
- Writing Custom Attributes
- Accessing Attributes in Code
- Reflection
- Class Design: Inheritance, Interface, or Composition?
- The TriTryst Game
- Console Applications in .NET 2.0
- New File I/O Methods in .NET 2.0
- Building Projects with MSBuild
- Unmanaged Callbacks in .NET 2.0
- Timer Troubles
- Non-Rectangular Windows Forms
- Windows Forms Transparency
- 10 Things I Hate About Visual Basic
- 10 Things I Hate About C#
- Background Processing with Idle Time
- Scaling Windows Forms
- Reading and Writing Binary Data
- New Memory Management Functions in .NET 2.0
- Compatibility Between .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0
- Managed Debugging Assistants in .NET 2.0
- XDir: A Program for Viewing Directory Sizes
- The Microsoft.VisualBasic Namespace
- Operator Overloading
- Working with GPS Data
- Hidden Visual Studio Tools
- .NET 3.0
- The .NET 2.0 Stopwatch Class
- Nullable Types
- Drawing Rotated Text
- Unsafe Code
- Other .NET Languages
- Compiler Directives
- Safe Handles
- Predictions, 2007 Edition
- New Features in C# 3.0
- Generics
- Network Client Programming
- On the Misuse of Exceptions
- Maximum Object Size in .NET
- More on Maximum Object Sizes
- Keyed Collection Memory Limitations
- Matching String Endings
- Allocating Small Data Structures
- Grumbling About Limitations
- Some Thoughts on the Nature of What We Do
- Working with Predicates in Collections
- Working with DataReaders
- Outputting XML with XmlWriter
- Writing XML Data
- Working with Compression
- Another Look at Compressed Streams
- Compressing a Very Large File
- Canonical URIs
- Constructing URIs
- Using OneWayAttribute for Remote Calls
- Selecting a Garbage Collector
- Linked List
- Linked List Application - The MRU List
- Auto-implemented Properties in C#
- The HashSet Collection
- Looking Ahead: 2018
- An Experiment in Optimization
- A Larger Integer
- Extension Methods
- Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
- Variable Length Parameter Lists
- The ReaderWriterLockSlim Synchronization Primitive
- Sorting a Text File
- Sorting a Large Text File
- Using ListView with Large Data Sets
- LINQ One-Liners
- Regular Expression Optimization
- Random File I/O
- Computing the Size of a Structure
- More on Computing Structure Sizes
- UnmanagedMemoryStream
- Dynamically Loading Code
- Building a String Table
- Delegates Versus Function Pointers
- Visual Studio Editor Features
- A Simple Profile Timer
- New Features in C# 4.0
- IEnumerator or IList?
- New Features in .NET 4.0
- Set Operations with IEnumerable and HashSet
- Using File Locks
- Extending Object Functionality
- Clearing a HashSet
- When Hash Codes Matter
- Parsing Command Line Options
- Creating a Single-Instance Program
- Asynchronous Windows Forms Events
- The BackgroundWorker Component
- Fixing a Dumb Mistake
- Thinking About Multi-Threaded Programs
- JavaScript Object Notation
- Useful .NET-related Sites
- Markov Models
- Building an Order 0 Markov Model
- Higher Order Markov Models
- Webmaster's Guide to robots.txt
- An Overview of the Parallel Extensions to .NET
- Parallel Extensions Synchronization Objects
- Thread Safe Collections
- A Bug and a Conundrum
- Another Bug and an Answer
- Task Parallel Library
- Good and Bad Ideas in C#
- Parallel LINQ
- Copying Large Files
- Replacing File.Copy
- Learning from Our Mistakes
- Symbolic Links
- There Is No Easy Fix
- Tracking Hurricanes
- Examining Hurricane Data
- Searching for Multiple Strings
- Simple JSON Processing
- Aho-Corasick String Searching
- Writing a Web Crawler
- Web Crawler Politeness
- Source Control Management
- Subversion
- Communicating with Datagrams
- Fun with Actions and Funcs New
- The Future of Media
- The Importance of Metadata
- Of Comparison and IComparer
- IComparer, Comparer, IComparable, Oh My!
- Comparing Generic Types New
- A Simple HTTP Server New
- Informit Reference Library
Best Practices - Testing
Last updated Jun 10, 2005.
Programmers have a reputation (deserved in some cases) of not testing their code thoroughly before calling it done. This is unfortunate, because it's much easier for a programmer to spend a relatively short amount of time testing prior to sending the latest creation off to QA than to come back to the code a few days or weeks later after a QA tech submits a bug. Not only is the bug harder to find than it would have been to identify and squash before integration, but now there's a bug in the system that will require follow-up testing and regression testing with each new release. It's just easier and a lot less embarrassing to find and fix bugs before they ever make it to the checked-in code.
The best way to ensure higher-quality code is to thoroughly test each addition or change to the program at the time you make it. Bugs that are found early during the development cycle are much easier to fix and a lot less embarrassing. "Test as you go" should be the rule. There are three types of testing that you should perform when during development.
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