Unit testing provides several benefits such as exercising code to find errors, preventing issues from propagating to other parts of an application, and generally improving software quality. There are different views on what unit testing entails and several popular unit testing frameworks for .NET like NUnit and MSpec. Effective unit testing requires writing tests first before code and designing tests to run quickly and independently.

1. By Joshua Candish

3. Tests functionality
“Exercises” your code
Should be written well

4. They make our lives easier
Prevents “domino effect”
Protects software from future code
General quality improvements

6. What is it?
It depends
Two main trains of thought

7. NUnit
MSpec (Machine Specifications)
Microsoft Test Tools

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