In this episode Matthew and Federico sit with fellow team member Brad Wilson to talk about Unit Testing. Brad is a developer in the ASP.NET team, he has a lot of experience developing using Test Driven Development and is one of the creators of the xUnit testing framework.

• What is Unit Testing?
• What is the difference between Unit Testing and Test Driven Development (TDD)?
• Unit Testing in practice
  • How does the MVC team uses unit testing?
  • How do you arrange your tests?
  • How do you name your tests?
  • What about using internal to be able to test something?
  • What if I inherited code that didn't had unit tests?
  • How can I convince my team to adopt unit tests as a development practice
• Addressing common concerns about Unit Testing
  • It feels like a lot of work for little value.
  • Having to rewrite a lot of tests if something in the design changes is a pain.
  • Code ends up being a lot of very small methods and I don’t like that.
• Common pitfalls
  • Writing very big tests.
  • Testing to internal implementation.
• Mocking
  • What does mocking mean and why is it useful?
  • What is your favorite mocking framework?
• Resources
  • Brad's Blog
  • xUnit Framework