These tests can also be added to test plans and reported on like any other functional tests. For the purposes of this how-to article, I'll be using a simple calculator application that does basic ...

With a few tweaks, you can turn Visual Studio's basic unit-testing capabilities into a powerful and extensible tool for improving code quality.

Pex is a Visual Studio add-in and testing tool developed by Microsoft Research. It investigates, explores the managed code and suggests the tests, which the project requires.

New for this year, the headline feature is “live unit testing”. For a while now Visual Studio has had the option to automatically run unit tests after each build.

To get started working with unit tests using the Microsoft unit test framework, you should first create a unit test project. To create a test project in Visual Studio, follow these steps.