Unit testing - videos or podcasts [closed]

Answer 1

JP Boodhoo is a great guy on unit testing and BDD. He made several videos on how to do unit testing on mvp patterns.

I agree with Andrew. Misko Hevery is quite thoughtful on testing. His project testability-explorer is an innovation to measure your code as an evidence for further refactoring, based on some existing metrics.

Answer 2

Google employee and testing evangelist Misko Hevery is definitely an authority on unit testing. I'm surprised he hasn't been mentioned yet. He's one of the best lecturers out there, unit testing or no. In fact, I didn't really give a hoot about unit testing until I watched one of his 'casts. He gives clear, professional, to-the-point lectures and 9 times out of ten has something interesting to say. In my book, he's up there with Yegge in terms of influential developers. Plus, he makes subtle nerd jokes as an added bonus too which I find hilarious.

Answer 3

Rob Conery covers a bit of this in his Store Front series. But probably not worth it unless your into the ASP.Net MVC stuff.

Answer 4

My collected bookmark-dump

• The Clean Code Talks has some of Miško Heverys lectures at Google. New episodes are posted at the Google Testing Blog as they arrive.
• Some of the GTAC 2008 (Google Test Automation Conference 2008) videos are pretty interesting.
• Automated Testing Patterns and Smells
• Becoming a Software Testing Expert is not really about unit testing, but helps you get into the tester mindset
• How To Design A Good API And Why It Matters briefly touches on testability.
• Browsing the testing tag on se-radio reveals some interesting podcasts
• Check out the videos from the Test track of Öredev 2007 (1, 2), I especially liked the 'testable architecture' one.
• The Testing sub-site of InfoQ is also worth a visit for more (text, audio, video) resources

Answer 5

At Dnr TV there are two episodes with JP Boodhoo, where he gives an introduction to test driven development:

• Test Driven Development with JP Boodhoo, Part 1
• Test Driven Development with JP Boodhoo, Part 2

If you want to see unit testing and TDD used together with a whole bunch of other agile practices, I would recommend watching the sceencast series Autumn of Agile. This series shows the development of a fully unit tested application from start to finish.

As for podcasts, check out the following:

• Polymorphic Podcast - Jason Bock on Unit Testing, Code Coverage & Analysis
• Hanselminutes - Scott Hanselman on Test Driven Development
• Hanselminutes - The Last Word on TDD, with Scott Bellware
• Software Engineering Radio - Gerard Meszaros on XUnit Test Patterns

Since mock objects are a quite important part of unit testing, these podcast episodes might be of interest as well:

• Hanselminutes - Scott Hanselman on Mock Objects
• Dot Net Rocks - Eli Lopian on TypeMock.Net
• Dot Net Rocks - Oren Eini on RhinoMocks
• Dot Net Rocks - Oren Eini on RhinoMocks 3.5