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One thing that we spent a lot of time on during the development of Enterprise Library was the unit tests. In fact, for the most part, we tried to use Test-Driven Development (TDD) to help ensure good code coverage.

As Brian Button discusses in Febrary 2005 issue of Better Software, one of the other advantages to using TDD is that you get a form of developer documentation (e.g. working examples) that by definition can’t fall out of date as the code changes.

But I have to admit I’ve been surprised that I haven’t seen much talk in the blogsphere about the unit tests in EntLib. So a few questions to anyone who is working with EntLib…

• Are the unit tests in Enterprise Library 1.0 valuable to you?
• What was good? What was bad?
• Did you run them when you got the code?
• Have you referred to them while exploring the EntLib code?
• If you’ve made changes to the EntLib code, did you update the unit tests? If not, why not?

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