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Professional Test-Driven Development with C# - part II

Ok, so let's do a quick review of Part II, chapters 6 to 8, of Professional Test-Driven Development with C#. Well, I get it. I think. It is hard to write an entire book on the topic of TDD.

Part II is labeled "Putting basics into action" and here the author describes, quite detailed, how he usually works. But unfortunately only a small part of it actually covers writing code. Instead a lot of pages are used to describe how to define the project, how the author and his team defines user stories, the development process they use for Agile software development and then it is framework frenzy again.

Frameworks covered is this section includes, NBehave, NHibernate, Fluent NHibernate, and Ninject. The author uses those for writing a total of two unit tests and one integration test. Most of the code describes how to use the frameworks, and very little is actual implementation.

So far this book is targeting a person, or team, that wants ideas on how to set up a new C# project in a way that may be suitable for TDD. If you are looking for a lot of code and to follow an application taking form driven by tests, this book is not for you.

A better title would be "How I work with C# projects and frameworks suitable for TDD".

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