You like good looking code right? Who doesn't!

This bit of code I picked up from the excellent book: Pro ASP.Net MVC2.

When you're unit testing, you might do something like this:

using NUnit.Framework

[Test]
public void Product_Catalog_Should_List_All_Products()
{
    var viewModelResult = productsController.List();
    var productCount = viewModelResult.Products.Count;
    Assert.AreEqual(3, productCount);
}

Let's create a little helper method that makes our code a little bit sexier (lord knows I like sexy code):

public static class UnitTestHelpers
{
    public static void ShouldEqual<T>(this T actualValue, T expectedValue)
    {
        Assert.AreEqual(expectedValue, actualValue);
    }
}

BEHOLD! GENERICS!

Now, let's spruce up our old unit test. ;)

using NUnit.Framework

[Test]
public void Product_Catalog_Should_List_All_Products()
{
    var viewModelResult = productsController.List();
    var productCount = viewModelResult.Products.Count;
    productsCount.ShouldEqual(3);
}

Now is that nice or what! :)

Added bonus, Visual Studio's intellisense is fully helping you out while coding.



Enjoy!