Chapter 12: Unit Testing Async, Concurrent, and Parallel Code

Unit testing asynchronous, concurrent, and parallel code can be a challenge for .NET developers. Fortunately, there are some steps you can take to help ease the difficulty. This chapter will provide some concrete advice and useful examples of how developers can unit test code that leverages multi-threaded constructs. These examples will illustrate how unit tests can still be reliable while covering code that performs multithreaded operations. In addition, we will explore a third-party tool that facilitates the creation of automated unit tests that monitor your code for potential memory leaks.

Creating unit tests for your .NET projects is important to maintain the health of your code base as it grows and evolves. When developers make changes to code that has unit test coverage, they can run the existing tests to feel confident that no existing functionality has been broken by the code changes. Visual Studio makes it simple...