6 Tips for Better Unit Test Names from DevChatter

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In this episode of DevChatter, Brendan goes through some tips for how you can improve the names of the unit tests that you and your software development team creates.

This video shows examples in C#, but applies across languages.

0:00 - Intro

0:20 - Describe What You're Testing

1:30 - Put Feature Name in the Class Name

2:24 - Use Underscores

3:04 - Enforce a "Should" Standard

3:59 - Test Cases to Simplify Names

5:19 - Get Team Agreement

5:48 - Outro

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Programming
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Unit Testing
C#