Generation Test: Automated Unit Tests for Legacy Code with Pex

Posted: Dec/14/2009 By: pankaj Points:15 Category: .NET - .NET Framework Views:95 Vote Up (0) Vote Down (0)

Creating and maintaining a unit test suite for legacy code can be a challenge. Pex automatically produces a small test suite with high code and assertion coverage.Nikhil SachdevaMSDN Magazine December 2009

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