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"I want to look at some of the costs of unit testing and ask the question "why is unit testing hard?" After all, if unit testing weren't hard, we wouldn't have to question whether or not it was worth it.  It makes sense then to look at first why it is hard and what makes it hard."

"Visual Studio 2012 has a great new Test Explorer.  The Test Explorer is where you see the results of your unit tests.  In Update 1 it has been extended, and you can now organize and filter the test runs based on several conditions, among them your Projects, and Traits."

I recently discovered a very cool project on NuGet - FluentAssertions. This is a really funky little library that vastly improves assertions in your unit tests, whether you are using NUnit or MsTest.

So I tried to give some examples of when NUnit (what I use) is much nicer and more readable then this project. However Diigo comments deletes some special symbols like [ for some reason. But the point was that this article only compares to MsTest, not NUnit which can be quite readable.

"Unit tests don't find bugs. They find regressions. This is a painful lesson I learned when I first started doing TDD (test-driven development), and it's well known among most TDD circles."

"Testing for exceptions in unit tests can be tricky. [..] The guys that designed xUnit understood the shortcomings of testing exceptions and took a much cleaner approach."

"One of the biggest struggles that developers have with adopting Unit Testing, whether it's Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD) or even just Test Eventual Development (TED), is the difficulty some code is to test.  This is typically when code doesn't follow the SOLID design principals."

"Microsoft StreamInsight consists of a set of programming tools, and most of what is written about StreamInsight is written specifically for programmers. But what if you are, for example, a database administrator or data analyst without an extensive programming background? You're wondering if StreamInsight might be a solution for a problem you have, but the existing documentation leaves you scratching your head."