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Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action

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Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action

Overview of this book

Microsoft Silverlight is fully established as a powerful tool for creating and delivering Rich Internet Applications and media experiences on the Web. This book will help you dive straight into utilizing Silverlight 5, which now more than ever is a top choice in the Enterprise for building Business Applications. "Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action" focuses on the development of a complete Silverlight 5 LOB application, helping you to take advantage of the powerful features available along with expert advice. Fully focused on LOB development, this expert guide takes you from the beginning of designing and implementing a Silverlight 5 LOB application, all the way through to completion. Accompanied by a gradually built upon case study, you will learn about data access via RIA and Web services, architecture with MEF and MVVM applied to LOB development, testing and error control, and much more.With "Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action" in hand, you will be fully equipped to expertly develop your own Silverlight Line of Business application, without dwelling on the basics of Enterprise Silverlight development.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering LOB Development for Silverlight 5: A Case Study in Action
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

LOB application case study: applying what we have learned


As we have mentioned earlier, testing could be applied in different ways. We could have written the tests before the code, following a TDD methodology for development, or Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). But we can also write the tests afterwards, as part of a quality assurance process, or to be included in a battery of regression tests. Also tests are a great tool in order to discover the behavior of a system, even more if it is a legacy system, or a subsystem that is not properly documented. As the code has already been written before introducing the tests, we could use these as a tool for discovering or checking that the application runs properly.

Now we are going to write, configure, and run a couple of unit tests, and in the full sample of this chapter you can find many more of them.

We choose MyBookingsVM as an interesting piece of code for testing:

  • It has some business logic related to UI.

  • It is decoupled from external sources...