Giorgio Sironi has started up a new series on DZone.com about some practical testing patterns you can use when writing up unit tests (and other types of testing in some cases) for your applications - the Test Strategy Patterns.

The list so far includes the patterns for:

• Recoded tests
• Scripted tests
• Data-driven tests
• Test automation frameworks

Keep an eye on this great series. There's more to come that can be quite helpful when you're trying to generate those tests and procedures around them.