Novices Question on NUnit

[Tony Hamill]

Hi,
I have a novice qurestion on Unit Testing. when developers are testing a
void function with NUnit what do they test for? The Assertion object asks
for a boolean expression to evaluate the outcome of a function which is
fine, however I have lots of

public void methodName(){}


Any help greatly appreciated.

[jcornado]

I am not a friend of *Unit but:

If your functions do not return anything and do not modify anything that is
passed by reference (which you could verify after calling the method) , what
can you test other than manually stepping thru the code? Not much.

Maybe this is some kind of GUI method that exhibits some behavior through
I/O?


Tony Hamill wrote in message ...Hi, I have a novice qurestion on Unit Testing. when developers are testing
avoid function with NUnit what do they test for? The Assertion object asksfor a boolean expression to evaluate the outcome of a function which isfine, however I have lots ofpublic void methodName(){}Any help greatly appreciated.

[jcornado]

Or maybe they modify a third object?

Tony Hamill wrote in message ...Hi, I have a novice qurestion on Unit Testing. when developers are testing
avoid function with NUnit what do they test for? The Assertion object asksfor a boolean expression to evaluate the outcome of a function which isfine, however I have lots ofpublic void methodName(){}Any help greatly appreciated.

[Lidor Wyssocky]

"Tony Hamill" <anthony.hamill@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:E9jRa.8063$X16.161132@newsfep1-win.server.ntli.net... Hi, I have a novice qurestion on Unit Testing. when developers are testing
a void function with NUnit what do they test for? The Assertion object asks for a boolean expression to evaluate the outcome of a function which is fine, however I have lots of public void methodName(){} Any help greatly appreciated.

Hi,

I've just finished writing an article about designing developer tests. Among
other things it deals with this issue. It is currently in a "draft" status,
but you can still access it at
http://www.qualityprogramming.org/Testing/DesigningDeveloperTests/DesigningD
eveloperTests.htm


Lidor


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____________________________
Lidor Wyssocky

http://www.QualityProgramming.org
Quality Oriented Programming

[Lidor Wyssocky]

Hi,

I've just finished writing an article about designing developer tests. Among
other things it deals with this issue. It is currently in a "draft" status,
but you can still access it at
http://www.qualityprogramming.org/Testing/DesigningDeveloperTests/DesigningD
eveloperTests.htm


--
____________________________
Lidor Wyssocky

http://www.QualityProgramming.org
Quality Oriented Programming


"Tony Hamill" <anthony.hamill@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:E9jRa.8063$X16.161132@newsfep1-win.server.ntli.net... Hi, I have a novice qurestion on Unit Testing. when developers are testing
a void function with NUnit what do they test for? The Assertion object asks for a boolean expression to evaluate the outcome of a function which is fine, however I have lots of public void methodName(){} Any help greatly appreciated.