Unit testing in VS.NET 2005

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The forthcoming Visual Studio .NET 2005 contains Visual Studio Test System (VSTS), which allows developers and testers to use unit testing to improve the quality of their code.

Now, since I've lately found good use for unit tests for testing calculation modules, my views about unit testing have improved. It seems to me that modern development tools should have built-in support for unit testing (UT).

Borland's Delphi 2005 started the thing for .NET development environments, and the support of UT in Delphi allows for easy testing. However, the forthcoming Visual Studio seems to take the lead in this area over Delphi.

Based on the MSDN article, one can both generate UTs and also see the results with-in the IDE. This is very good.

Once I get my hands on the MSDN distribution DVDs, I will install the betas and check Visual Studio out.