4206.  Test-Driven Development Using Visual Studio and Visual Basic

Rev. 1.0

 

An emerging software engineering paradigm is test-driven development, where tests are written early and testing is performed continuously during the development process. Problems are discovered early and corrected when they are found. This one-day course for developers explains the methodology of test-driven development and the use of the unit testing framework that comes with Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition and higher.

 

The course is practical, with many example programs and tests written in Visual Basic, including a cumulative case study. The goal is to quickly bring you up to speed in doing unit testing in your .NET development projects. The student will receive a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the programming examples.

 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

 

·         Understand the principles of test-driven development

·         Acquire fluency in developing tests using the Visual Studio unit testing framework

·         Efficiently exercise test suites using Visual Studio and MSTest

 

Duration:  1 day.

 

Prerequisites:  The student should have a basic knowledge of the .NET Framework and experience programming in Visual Basic with Visual Studio.

 

1.      Test-Driven Development

What Is Test-Driven Development (TDD)?

Functional Tests / Customer Tests

Unit Tests / Programmer Tests

Test Automation

Simple Design

Refactoring

A Visual Studio Test Drive

TDD with Legacy Code

 

2.      Visual Studio Unit Testing Fundamentals

Structure of Unit Tests

Unit Testing Framework

Assertions

Test Cases

Test Classes

Test Runners

Ignoring Tests

Initialization and Cleanup

 

3.      More about Unit Testing Framework

Expected Exceptions

Custom Asserts

Test Lists

Debugging Unit Tests

MSTest

Refactoring

 

System Requirements

 

Course exercises require Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition or Visual Studio 2008 Team System for Developers. The recommended operating system is Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2. 

 

A good minimal hardware profile for this course would have a 1 GHz or equivalent CPU, 512 MB of RAM, and at least 4 GB of free disk space for tools installation and courseware.