Description: The art of unit testing is more than just learning the right collection of tools and practices. It's about understanding what makes great tests tick, finding the right strategy for each unique situation, and knowing what to do when the testing process gets messy. This book delivers insights and advice that will transform the way you test your software. 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 JavaScript.
Brief description: Roy Osherove is an internationally-recognized expert in unit testing and agile software methodology. Still an active coder, he consults and trains teams worldwide on the gentle art of unit testing and test-driven development. He is also the author of Elastic Leadership (Manning 2016). Roy's blog is at ArtOfUnitTesting.com.
Review Quotes: "A book that is seeing a third release must be awesome and this book certainly is." - Sander Zegveld
"A didactic and entertaining approach to learning the intricacies of unit testing. Gives the the reader a solid mental framework to work with." - Adriaan Beiertz "Previous editions of the book were widely regarded as one of the best books in Unit Testing. The decision to update it to include examples in JavaScript (according to most surveys, the most used programming language in the world) is a smart move, making the book more directly applicable to most programmers, regardless of their server-side stack." - Jaume Lopez "This book is a must read, for any one who would like to be a better javascript developer or wants to start integrating Unit-Tests into their development process. It is a great balance between technical background and hand on examples." - Charles Lam