Chapter 12. Testing and Debugging

Terms you'll need to understand:

• Testing

• Stub

• Testing for correctness

• Testing for reliability

• Testing for robustness

• Bottom-up testing

• Top-down testing

• Trace class

• Debug class

• Listeners collection

• Stepping

• Breakpoint

Techniques you'll need to master:

• Understanding how to apply the three elements of testing: correctness, reliability, and robustness

• Knowing when you must perform regression testing

• Understanding the use of the bottom-up, top-down, and umbrella testing methods

• Knowing how to configure your application for conditional compilation

Before an application is deployed to users, it is critical that you test the application for errors or unexpected behaviors. This chapter will examine the methods used to plan a thorough testing of your application as well as the classes provided by the .NET Framework for use in testing and debugging an application during runtime.