Comments on: Chapter 6 : The Art of Unit Testing http://dublinalt.net/2009/10/28/chapter-6-the-art-of-unit-testing/ The first ALT.NET group in Ireland Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:24:08 +0000 hourly 1 By: Billy Stack http://dublinalt.net/2009/10/28/chapter-6-the-art-of-unit-testing/comment-page-1/#comment-349 Billy Stack Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:37:25 +0000 http://dublinalt.net/?p=206#comment-349 We put the following tests into slow test category: Database tests (which are integration tests) Temporal tests (i.e. tests where thread timing/synchronisation etc is involved - these usually are not integration tests. When you have a codebase with a couple of thousand tests, where a few hundred tests take quite a bit of time, these tests must be separated into a slow test category. All non-slow tests are executed by developers and all non-slow tests + slow tests are executed in our automated build process with cruise control We put the following tests into slow test category:

Database tests (which are integration tests)
Temporal tests (i.e. tests where thread timing/synchronisation etc is involved – these usually are not integration tests.

When you have a codebase with a couple of thousand tests, where a few hundred tests take quite a bit of time, these tests must be separated into a slow test category.

All non-slow tests are executed by developers and all non-slow tests + slow tests are executed in our automated build process with cruise control

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