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I'm very active on the Code Review site and I know what is required of a question there (the code must be included in the question). I've looked through the help/asking section and I've searched the meta questions, I don't see an answer to what should be in a question for Software Engineering.

I would like to ask a question that refers to my question on Code Review. I believe there is too much code in that question to post the code I want to ask about here. Can I ask my questions about unit testing and provide the link to the code review question? Specifically I would be asking what portions of the code are unit testing, what portions of the code are not unit testing, and what kind of test would they be.

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All the standard guidance for asking a good question applies.

There is a bit of an unwritten expansion to the "be specific" guidance that is near universal across all SE communities. The details and context must be embedded within the question. Referring to or pointing to an outside resource is insufficient. Although it can be helpful, the question (and answers) should be fully self-contained and be accessible to people who don't have access to that outside resource (or, for web resources, if the resource is no longer available).

If you want help crafting a good question, feel free to post the entire question here on Meta. People can look at it and help out. Chat is another option, but it's probably less visible and active than Meta is. Based on the limited description, though, I'd suggest that the question may not fit the criteria for a constructive subjective question outlined in our guidance about what not to ask here - simply, people don't always agree on what a "unit" is and where the boundaries of unit testing are, meaning that there will be many equally valid answers that can't be objectively judged on their merit or correctness.

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