Testing a Task

In my previous post I described the creation of a custom MSBuild task to aid in building WiX projects under TFS. However, one thing I have always disliked about most of the code nuggets found on blogs and magazine articles, which I find highly inexcusable in today’s development landscape, is that they rarely include any tests to prove that their code actually works. Therefore, this post is intended to demonstrate that throwing in a few simple unit tests with code samples is easy and goes a long way toward helping readers understand and trust the code being published.