A common problem in any language is to assert that parameters sent in to a method meet your requirements, and if they don\'t, to send nice, informative error messages. This
I tackled this exact problem a few weeks ago, after thinking that it is strange how testing libraries seem to need a million different versions of Assert to make their messages descriptive.
Here's my solution.
Brief summary - given this bit of code:
int x = 3;
string t = "hi";
Assert(() => 5*x + (2 / t.Length) < 99);
My Assert function can print out the following summary of what is passed to it:
(((5 * x) + (2 / t.Length)) < 99) == True where
{
((5 * x) + (2 / t.Length)) == 16 where
{
(5 * x) == 15 where
{
x == 3
}
(2 / t.Length) == 1 where
{
t.Length == 2 where
{
t == "hi"
}
}
}
}
So all the identifier names and values, and the structure of the expression, could be included in the exception message, without you having to restate them in quoted strings.