# Unit Testing Tip: Create Descriptive Tests

DevFeed: [Unit Testing Tip: Create Descriptive Tests](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/unit-testing-tip-create-descriptive-tests-21200.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://juri.dev/blog/2013/06/unit-testing-tip-create-descriptive-tests/>)

Published: 2013-06-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Juri Strumpflohner](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/juri-strumpflohner.md>)

Topics: [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>), [Unit testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/unit-testing.md>)

Tags: [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [debugger](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debugger.md>), [junit](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/junit.md>), [mstest](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mstest.md>), [testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/testing.md>), [tests](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tests.md>), [unit-testing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/unit-testing.md>), [unit-tests](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/unit-tests.md>)

## AI overview

This article presents a unit testing tip: make tests more descriptive. It recommends adding meaningful assertion messages and using explicit assertion types so failures show clearer information about the operation, expected value, and actual value.

## Source excerpt

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