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Is  Unit Testing is most boring activity for Developer
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Not at all. I find writing unit tests, TDD style, highly stimulating and challenging. The only way I can imagine unit testing to be close to boring is if you have to manually run individual tests, but in 2015 you're doing something wrong if you need to do that.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Brady,
Right.
I agree with you.
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Funny thing is, I don't even know what "Unit tests" are.  I did go to Wikipedia to learn something... Ended up yawning! 
There was no challenge, just boring text... Lorem ipsum sounds better than that.
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: Ended up yawning!
I hope my e-book[^] on the subject isn't a yawner! 
Marc
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I will try yawning enough before clicking on the link...
Thank you very much (have a +1 as thank you) for your e-book, Marc. I will give it a read thoroughly right away. 
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It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
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modified 4-Apr-15 8:53am.
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: Marc. I will give it a read thoroughly right away.
Heh, well, it's ok if you yawn through it too. But I would enjoy hearing your thoughts about it!
Marc
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I have read that eBook, that was an amazing and outstanding eBook of yours Marc. Now, I really know what Unit is, what Test is and what Unit Test is.
Thanks a lot Marc, for such extraordinary help of yours.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Hi Afzaal,
Cool Answer
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Thanks for the link. It's always useful to read a different perspective on an important subject.
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No, the most boring activity a developer can be involved in is a four hour meeting you have to attend, of which the last five minutes are relevant to your job. If you are lucky.
And then someone will say "oh, just one other thing..." And that'll add another hour or two.
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You can't be sure enough that you're properly utilizing dynamic multidisciplinary channels to authoritatively cloudify end-to-end imperatives.
Just saying.
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I think we'd better run that up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes it.
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You are absolutely right!
Behzad
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Don't treat it as religious dogma. Ignore silly "rules" (which are just "some guy who thinks he has figured out software development said so, so it must be true").
Write unit tests because without them you might accidentally break things.
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Never, ever test your code, that way you have more time to write rubbish!
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Never, ever test your code, that way you have more time to write rubbish drink Gin!
FTFY!
OT: How did the dentist go?
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Two deep rooted buggers removed with large pliers and 8 novacains
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And when does the dentist get out of intensive care?
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Member 11547329 wrote: Is Unit Testing is most boring activity for Developer
Whenever I am bored doing programming, I ask myself, why can't the computer do this, which has led to some interesting tools over the years.
I still don't see why we don't have tools that generate the unit tests for us. I mean, it really isn't that hard if we were only to apply ourselves to the problem.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I still don't see why we don't have tools that generate the unit tests for us.
Clickety[^]
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: Clickety[^]
True, but I've never tried, as I expect to be disappointed.
Have you tried it?
Marc
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No, I haven't tried it. I've been building my unit tests manually so far. Admittedly, I don't test every method and property - just (what I deem to be) points of failure.
/ravi
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I haven't either; but it looks like it's just a test stub generator. You'd still have to do the hard work of writing any non-trivial setup code, and then actually writing meaningful test content. The one in VS08/10 was a major waste of time IMO; and it appears MS agrees with me since based on the comments there they yanked it from 2012.
I've also played a bit with MS's automagic unit testing tool back around the New Year. While it fell well short of its "cover your legacy code in a single button click" hype; if you're writing readily testable code now it seemed like it might be able to generate good test coverage of it. Things like non-trivial state setup, logic in winform event handlers, or classes with tight coupling to the file system all defeated it; unfortunately my un-unit tested legacy .net code is riddled with those constructs making it mostly useless to me. (Even aside from only having MSDN pro - and the feature apparently being limited to the rebranded Premium tier.)
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