How to avoid property recursion

Question

This hit me recently on a project I was working on. Most people are familiar with property recursion:

public int Test 
{
   get { return this.test; }
   set          


        

Answer 1

Could you not just write a test to cover this?

int constructorValue = 4;
TestClass test = new TestClass(constructorValue);
Assert.Equals(test.Test, constructorValue);

You may not want to write tests immediately to cover yourself from future wobbles, but you've found a bug, why not protect yourself from it again?

For the record, if I need a private field to store the value for a pulic getter/setter, I always underscore it. There's just something an underscore that screams privacy!

public string Test
{
    get { return _test; }
    set { _test = value; }
}

private string _test;