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How to unit test large legacy systems? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Best practices for retrofitting legacy code with automated tests When working in large legacy systems (large systems with no unit testing ever) I often come across ...
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Testing loses its effectiveness if all programmers don't use them

Let's assume you are convinced that the extra time spent unit testing has merit and improves production. Does that still hold up when everyone working on the same code doesn't use them? This question ...
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How do you motivate your team colleagues to learn, use and apply best practices? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: How do you motivate peers to become better developers? How do you promote and how do you assure that in your new project best practices like unit testing, TDD, ...
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What benefit do I get from good methodology?

One of my friends has worked for nearly 10 years, asked me why he needs to learn new things such as unit-testing, MVC, Multi-tier architecture (he creates 3-tier application but designs like 2-tier), ...
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Unit test storage on Android apps

I've been experimenting recently with Android applications. I've developed the convention (which I've seen used elsewhere) of placing my unit tests in a parallel source folder within an Eclipse ...
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Unit tests, write them before or after the framework?

This is my first question here, so i'll make it short and to the point. When Writing unit tests, should you write them before or after you have made the underlying framework for them? This came up in ...
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Test driven development - convince me!

I know some people are massive proponents of test driven development. I have used unit tests in the past, but only to test operations that can be tested easily or which I believe will quite possibly ...