Not exactly new but I don't remember seeing it mentioned on here before Pex automated white box testing. Unit testing for people who don't like writing endless unit tests. Also moles for delegate testing. Been playing around with it for a while and the time savings are good but the learning curve to get the most out of it can be a bit steep.
Simon http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/pex/ On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:35 AM, silky <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Peter Gfader <[email protected]> wrote: > > I came across "Mutation testing" 2 weeks ago. And loved the idea. > > But didn't dig into it too much yet. > > > > The Idea of "Mutation testing" > > > > How can you trust your tests? > > > > Let a tool change your app a little and run all tests. > > > > If 1 test fails, because of that change, you had good tests in place... > > Heh, that's pretty cute, some sort of fuzzing applied to tests. Don't > mind that. Nice one. > > > > More here > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_testing > > and a .NET implementation here > > http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-tools/mutation-testing/ > > > > .peter.gfader. > > http://blog.gfader.com > > -- > silky > > http://dnoondt.wordpress.com/ > > "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy > of being this signature." >
