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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)

Structuring unit tests with xUnit

Similar to the manner in which an application's code base is structured to allow easy readability and for effective source code maintenance, unit tests should be structured. This is to facilitate easy maintenance and quick running of tests using the test runners from Visual Studio IDE.

A testcase is a test class containing test methods. It is usually common to have one test class per class under test. Another common practice of structuring tests among developers is to have a nested class for each method being tested or to have one base test class for the class under test and one subclass for every tested method. Also, there is the test class per feature approach, where all the test methods that collectively validate a feature of an application are grouped in a testcase.

These test-structuring approaches promote the DRY principle and essentially...