When I’m coaching teams in Test Driven Development (TDD), I’m often asked how to deal with the User Interface (UI). The problem is that the unit test frameworks are weak in testing Forms, Controls, Buttons, Grids, and so on. Weak because they do not support it at all or the tests become very fragile (e.g. renaming a Label causes the test to fail).

We address this problem with the Passive View Command pattern, PVC for short.

.NET, Architecture, Testing Model-View-Controller, Model-View-Presenter, Passive View, Passive View Command, Patterns, PVC, Test Driven Development, Testability, Unit Test