Testability and TDD are not reasons to use the ASP.NET MVC Framework

Posted by: Jeffrey Palermo, on 29 Apr 2009 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

Even though Microsoft continues to tout testability as a reason to adopt ASP.NET MVC over WebForms, it really isnt a good reason.  It is interesting that this is the first product Ive seen where there is a first-class tutorial explaining how to test code that is coupled to some part of the framework.  Interesting, Im unable to find a Microsoft tutorial or MSDN Library article talking about unit testing with WebForms, WCF, ASMX, Workflow Foundation, BizTalk, WinForms, WPF, etc.  Now,...

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