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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)

The test runners available on both .NET Core and Windows

The .NET platform has a large ecosystem of test runners that can be used with the popular test platforms NUnit, MSTest, and xUnit. The test frameworks have test runners shipped with them that facilitate the smooth running of the tests. Additionally, there are also several open source and commercial test runners that can be used with the available test platforms, one of which is ReSharper.

ReSharper

ReSharper is a Visual Studio extension for .NET Developers, developed by JetBrains. Its test runner is by far the most popular among the test runners available on the .NET platform, the ReSharper productivity tool provides other functionalities that enhance programmers&apos...