Better off at rentacoder.com I suspect Bob Ashfield Consultants Ltd Proud to be a Code Project MVP

Looks like the following serve http://www.codeplex.com/white [^] http://sourceforge.net/projects/vsnunit/[^] Have any one used these for C#- Windows applications?

Depends on where your skills really are. There are very few developers who do it as "just another job" and are successful. If you have collected some experience in Web Dev already, it's a good start. nuoi wrote: I don't want to experiment anymore That's actually a bad sign. Most kind of development requires learning new stuff frequently. Without curiosity, without enjoying something new, that is a total pain. There is one role that would spare you from experimenting: maintenance programming - mostly "keeping existing systems alive". But that's usually just a different kind of frustration, working on a code base you'll never understand, you can never really improve, just to save a bank the cost of switchign to new servers. But if you enjoy reading other peoples crappy code, and have some abstruse specialization - like COBOL - this might be for you. Don't attribute to stupidity what can be equally well explained by buerocracy. My latest article | Linkify!| FoldWithUs! | sighist

I haven't seen much about testing anywhere on this site, so when this forum emerged, I was rather surprised. However, if you want to suggest a change, you'd better post in the site suggestion forum, that's the one Chris reads. :) Luc Pattyn [Forum Guidelines] [My Articles] - before you ask a question here, search CodeProject, then Google - the quality and detail of your question reflects on the effectiveness of the help you are likely to get - use the code block button (PRE tags) to preserve formatting when showing multi-line code snippets

Having spent many years designing and programming ATE, one area that I can't stress enough is bit manipulation. Most hardware testing depends a lot on monitoring or modifying status and control bits, and that's not particularly easy in VB. Another area that bites beginning testers is comparisons of measured analog values with thresholds, especially near zero. You could set up some situations where the obvious solution might result in a divide by zero or range violation and ask how the applicant would program the test. Of course, if you're just talking about automated software testing, all of the above is nul. "A Journey of a Thousand Rest Stops Begins with a Single Movement"

Yes, I think this is Microsoft's problem now. They've either fired, or moved, all their STEs (Software Test Engineers). They now only have SDE/Ts (Software Design Engineers in Test). The difference is that STEs used to test all the code by hand, while SDE/Ts write code to exercise it. An SDE/T can perform many more tests repeatably on a given build, in a given timeframe, but it requires much more effort to add a new test to the suite and to verify that the test is actually testing what it should do. I think there's a massive problem with false negatives (i.e. the test didn't fire, but should have). DoEvents: Generating unexpected recursion since 1991

Have you actually experienced that? I've experienced the opposite, and if a test becomes too much of a hassle then yes, sometimes it is easier to delete and re-write it. I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon

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Not sure if it's what you are looking for, but have you looked at the Policy Injection Block in the latest Enterprise Library release? http://www.codeplex.com/entlib[^] only two letters away from being an asset

We use SilkTest and it runs thousands of automated tests against our software.

Look at the stuff from Red Gate[^] cheers, Chris Maunder CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

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NUnit http://www.nunit.org/[^] Kevin

check out this excellent and FREE tool: http://www.codeproject.com/dll/eventrecorder.asp Peter Molnar

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