Brendan Higgins recently proposed adding unit tests to the Linux kernel, supplementing other development infrastructure such as perf, autotest and kselftest. The whole issue of testing is very dear to ...

Microsoft's dev teams for coding tooling like Visual Studio Code are strictly adamant about continually seeking feedback from developers and using it to improve their respective products, though it ...

More often than not, enterprise code is badly unit tested or worse, not unit tested. While the reasons for this could vary from time constraints, budget constraints or lack of developer knowledge, ...

SAN FRANCISCO (08/11/2008) – The agile revolution that began in software development in the 1990s has been inexorably making its way into mainstream IT organizations. Today, one of the most adopted ...

Microsoft and OpenAI, in collaboration with GitHub, have developed the Copilot extension, an AI-powered code optimization and completion tool. It can help developers by suggesting blocks or even lines ...

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The idea of unit testing has been around for many years. Test early, test often is a mantra that concerns unit testing as well. By using stubs, developers can test code under realistic and controlled ...