单元测试的一个好处是，它们可以作为说明代码行为方式的文档。好的测试有点像参考实现，团队成员可以通过查看它们来了解如何将他们的代码与您的代码集成。

根据我的经验，在复杂的软件环境中，单元测试和集成测试是“必须的”。

为了说服团队中的开发人员编写单元测试，您可能需要考虑在开发环境中集成单元测试回归分析(例如，在您的日常构建过程中)。

一旦开发人员知道如果单元测试失败，他们就不必花那么多时间调试它来发现问题，他们就会更有动力去编写这些测试。

这里有一个工具可以提供这样的功能:

单元测试回归分析工具

单元测试绝对是值得付出努力的。不幸的是，您选择了一个困难的(但不幸的是常见的)场景来实现它。

从单元测试中获得的最大好处是从头开始使用它——在一些精选的小项目中，我有幸在实现类之前编写单元测试(此时接口已经完成)。通过适当的单元测试，您可以在类还处于婴儿期时就发现并修复它们，而不是在将来毫无疑问会集成到复杂系统中的任何地方。

如果您的软件是完全面向对象的，那么您应该能够在类级别上添加单元测试，而不需要太多的努力。如果您没有那么幸运，您仍然应该尽可能地尝试合并单元测试。确保当你添加新功能时，新部分都有清晰的接口，你会发现单元测试让你的工作变得更容易。

单元测试非常值得最初的投资。自从几年前开始使用单元测试以来，我发现了一些真正的好处:

回归测试消除了恐惧 对代码进行更改(什么都没有 就像看到代码的温暖光芒 每次有变化，要么工作，要么爆发 了) 以下的可执行代码示例 其他团队成员(包括你自己) 6个月的时间…) 无情的重构——这是令人难以置信的回报，试试吧!

代码片段可以极大地帮助减少创建测试的开销。创建能够在几秒钟内创建类大纲和相关单元测试fixture的代码片段并不困难。

关于单元测试要记住的一件事是，它对开发人员来说是一种安慰。

相反，功能测试是针对用户的:无论何时添加功能测试，您都是在测试用户将看到的东西。当您添加单元测试时，您只是让开发人员的生活更轻松。在这方面有点奢侈。

当您必须在编写单元或功能测试之间做出选择时，请记住这种二分法。

在我们的办公室里，每天都有这样的对话:

“伙计，我就是喜欢单元测试，我刚刚能够对某些东西的工作方式进行了一系列更改，然后能够通过再次运行测试来确认我没有破坏任何东西……”

细节每天都在变化，但情绪却不变。单元测试和测试驱动开发(TDD)有很多隐藏的和个人的好处，也有很多明显的好处，除非他们自己做，否则你无法真正向他们解释。

但是，忽略这一点，下面是我的尝试!

Unit Tests allows you to make big changes to code quickly. You know it works now because you've run the tests, when you make the changes you need to make, you need to get the tests working again. This saves hours. TDD helps you to realise when to stop coding. Your tests give you confidence that you've done enough for now and can stop tweaking and move on to the next thing. The tests and the code work together to achieve better code. Your code could be bad / buggy. Your TEST could be bad / buggy. In TDD you are banking on the chances of both being bad / buggy being low. Often it's the test that needs fixing but that's still a good outcome. TDD helps with coding constipation. When faced with a large and daunting piece of work ahead writing the tests will get you moving quickly. Unit Tests help you really understand the design of the code you are working on. Instead of writing code to do something, you are starting by outlining all the conditions you are subjecting the code to and what outputs you'd expect from that. Unit Tests give you instant visual feedback, we all like the feeling of all those green lights when we've done. It's very satisfying. It's also much easier to pick up where you left off after an interruption because you can see where you got to - that next red light that needs fixing. Contrary to popular belief unit testing does not mean writing twice as much code, or coding slower. It's faster and more robust than coding without tests once you've got the hang of it. Test code itself is usually relatively trivial and doesn't add a big overhead to what you're doing. This is one you'll only believe when you're doing it :) I think it was Fowler who said: "Imperfect tests, run frequently, are much better than perfect tests that are never written at all". I interpret this as giving me permission to write tests where I think they'll be most useful even if the rest of my code coverage is woefully incomplete. Good unit tests can help document and define what something is supposed to do Unit tests help with code re-use. Migrate both your code and your tests to your new project. Tweak the code till the tests run again.

我参与的很多工作都没有很好地进行单元测试(web应用程序用户交互等)，但即使如此，我们在这个商店里都被测试感染了，当我们把测试束缚住时，我们最高兴。我怎么极力推荐这种方法都不为过。