What are some good books and online resources for test-driven SharePoint development?

I am seeking articles, tutorials, examples, links, videos, books, or anything to get me started with the Test Driven SharePoint Development.

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I don't think you need to understand it specific to Sharepoint. The concept of test-driven development is general enough to be applicable to any programming language or framework.

The wiki can get you started, and there are plenty of links in google to go from there.

But, if you really want some Sharepoint specific articles, there is The Sharepoint Cowboy's article and an article on 21 apps.

I agree with Larry, "normal" test-driven applies to SharePoint just fine.

You should look at TypeMock for your unit / integration tests. It's a unit-test / faking framework that allows you to fake SharePoint objects. Not sure if it's still the only one that does it, but it certainly is a good product.

I find that doing test-driven development in SharePoint is a bit more time-consuming than regular .NET TDD, mostly because SharePoint objects are more complex and harder to isolate. For example, a SharePoint list often depends on a content type, which depends on site columns, etc. It means that you have to put it a bit more work to get something working.

A big pro (in my eyes anyway) is that once your setup is done, you can work fast. Setting up your environment for a test (if you're doing it through the UI) is a pain. It takes a long time. For example, if you need to create your columns, then your content type though the UI every time you make a change to code that uses it, you'll lose a lot of time. Even more so if your test fails and you need to delete your content type because you broke something. Going with unit tests / fake SharePoint objects, you'll be able to do that in no time, plus you'll quickly get a better understanding of how the SharePoint objects work.