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title: Unit Testing
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# Unit Testing
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Unit Testing is a way of checking that a small chunk of your code, or a 'unit', works as you expect it to and it is very good practice for producing high quality code.
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It is particularly useful in large projects, to quickly and easily track down what unit is causing defects in your wider project.
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In commercial development the majority of bugs and issues with code can be mitigated through the use of unit testing. Unit testing also allows for automation testing.
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Unit testing is also closely used in conjunction with test driven development.
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## Creating a basic unit test
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1. Right click ```Solution``` > ```Add``` > ```New Project```
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2. Select ```Unit Test App (Universal Windows)``` and name the UnitTest project appropriately
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3. Reference the solution you are testing, by right clicking the ```References``` tab in the unit test > ```Add Reference``` and select the solution that you are referencing. Then make the class that you are testing publicly accessible.
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4. Name the TestMethods appropriately, and then input the ```//Arrange``` ```//Act``` ```//Assert``` parameters within the method body code block.
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5. Under the ```// Arrange``` section, each variable involved in that individual test needs to be declared, as well as the ```expectedResult```.
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6. Under the ```// Act``` section, the variables that are going to be passed as an input into a given method are placed into the method's parenthesis, and all of this is initialised as an ```actualResult``` variable.
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7. Under the ```// Assert``` section, to check whether the ```expectedResult``` is equal to the ```actualResult``` and then assert this finding to make the test pass using the ```Assert.AreEqual(expectedResult, actualResult)``` class and method.
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## Example code
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The code below is testing whether the ```MultiplyPointsMethod``` in the ```Multiply Points Class``` will output ```600``` from an input of 6.
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```cs
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[TestMethod]
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public void BonusPointsOutputTestWithInt6()
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{
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// Arrange
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var userInput = 6;
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var expectedResult = 600;
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// Act
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int actualResult = MultiplyPointsClass.MultiplyPointsMethod(userInput);
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// Assert
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Assert.AreEqual(expectedResult, actualResult);
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}
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```
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## Running the test
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1. Go to ```Test``` > ```Run``` > ```All Tests```
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2. If the testing window does not pop up go to ```Test``` > ```Windows``` > ```Test Explorer```
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