How to test enum types?

Question

I\'m currently trying to build a more or less complete set of unit tests for a small library. Since we want to allow different implementations to exist we want this set of t

Answer 1

Usually I would say it is overkill, but there are occasionally reasons for writing unit tests for enums.

Sometimes the values assigned to enumeration members must never change or the loading of legacy persisted data will fail. Similarly, apparently unused members must not be deleted. Unit tests can be used to guard against a developer making changes without realising the implications.