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How to Initiate Writing a Unit Test Faster & with Little Effort

A short video showing how code templates let you start a unit test in a few keystrokes, with consistent naming. Shown in Visual Studio with ReSharper.

Alex Brown · 23 May 2020 · 1 min read

Code templates let you write unit tests faster and with less effort. In this short video we show how to initiate a test with minimal keystrokes, in a way that helps you and your team stick to a common test naming standard.

The demonstration uses Visual Studio with ReSharper, but the same approach works in any IDE that supports code templates, such as IntelliJ.

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