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 NUnit in supporting test-driven development on Microsoft .NET. It is current to .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008.

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

.NET Training Learning objectives

• Understand the principles of test-driven development
• Acquire fluency in developing tests using the NUnit framework
• Efficiently exercise tests suites using both GUI and command-line tools

Course exercises require NUnit 2.5.2, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, and a Windows operating system, XP or more recent. See the appropriate course Setup Guide for details.

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