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C# and .NET Core Test Driven Development

By : Ayobami Adewole
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C# and .NET Core Test Driven Development

By: Ayobami Adewole

Overview of this book

This book guides developers to create robust, production-ready C# 7 and .NET Core applications through the practice of test-driven development process. In C# and .NET Core Test-Driven Development, you will learn the different stages of the TDD life cycle, basics of TDD, best practices, and anti-patterns. It will teach you how to create an ASP.NET Core MVC sample application, write testable code with SOLID principles and set up a dependency injection for your sample application. Next, you will learn the xUnit testing framework and learn how to use its attributes and assertions. You’ll see how to create data-driven unit tests and mock dependencies in your code. You will understand the difference between running and debugging your tests on .NET Core on LINUX versus Windows and Visual Studio. As you move forward, you will be able to create a healthy continuous integration process for your sample application using GitHub, TeamCity, Cake, and Microsoft VSTS. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to write clean and robust code through the effective practice of TDD, set up CI build steps to test and build applications as well as how to package application for deployment on NuGet.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

A look at the new features of C# 7

The C# programming language has matured over the years; more language features and constructs are being added with the release of each version. A language that originally was only being developed in house by Microsoft and run only on Windows operating systems is now open source and cross-platform. This is made possible through .NET Core and Version 7 (7.0 and 7.1) of the language, which added flavors and improved the available features of the language. The roadmap of the language, especially Version 7.2 and 8.0, promises to add more features to the language.

Tuples enhancement

Tuples were introduced into C# language in Version 4 and are used in the simplified form to provide structure with...