The Art of Unit Testing, Third Edition, Video Edition

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Thousands of developers have learned to hone their code quality under the tutelage of The Art of Unit Testing. This revised third edition updates an international bestseller to reflect modern development tools and practices, as well as to cover j?vascript.
Inside The Art of Unit Testing, Third Edition you will learn how to
Create readable, maintainable, and trustworthy tests
Work with fakes, stubs, mock objects, and isolation frameworks
Apply simple dependency injection techniques
Refactor legacy code with confidence
Test both frontend and backend code
Effective unit tests streamline your software development process and ensure you deliver consistent high-quality code every time. With practical examples in j?vascript and Node, this hands-on guide takes you from your very first unit tests all the way to comprehensive test suites, naming standards, and refactoring techniques. You'll explore test patterns and organization, working with legacy code and even "untestable" code. The many tool-agnostic examples are presented in j?vascript and carefully designed so that they apply to code written in any language.
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About the Book
The Art of Unit Testing, Third Edition shows you how to create readable and maintainable tests. It goes well beyond basic test creation into organization-wide test strategies, troubleshooting, working with legacy code, and "merciless" refactoring. You'll love the practical examples and familiar scenarios that make testing come alive as you read. This third edition has been updated with techniques specific to object-oriented, functional, and modular coding styles. The examples use j?vascript.
What's Inside
Deciding on test types and strategies
Test Entry & Exit Points
Refactoring legacy code
Fakes, stubs, mock objects, and isolation frameworks
Object-Oriented, Functional, and Modular testing styles
About the Reader
Examples use j?vascript, TypeScript, and Node.js.
About the Authors
Roy Osherove is an internationally-recognized expert in unit testing and agile software methodology. Vladimir Khorikov is the author of Manning's Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns, a Pluralsight author, and a Microsoft MVP.