Here I found (via haacked something Michael Feathers says that can be an answer: He says, A test is not a unit test if: It talks to the database It communicates across the network It touches the file system It can’t run at the same time as any of your other unit tests You have … Read more
There’s a difference in terms of what the driving factor is. Do you have a vague idea of what the class (or system – this can happen at different scales, of course) should look like, then think up tests which give it the actual shape? That’s TDD. Do you know exactly what the public API … Read more
Let me begin by plugging sources – Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java with JUnit (There’s a version with C#-Nunit too.. but I have this one.. its agnostic for the most part. Recommended.) Good Tests should be A TRIP (The acronymn isn’t sticky enough – I have a printout of the cheatsheet in the book that … Read more