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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)

TeamCity CI platform

TeamCity is a platform-independent CI tool by JetBrains. It is a user-friendly CI tool specifically built with software developers and engineers in mind. TeamCity is a robust and powerful CI tool because of the capability to fully optimize the integration cycle.

TeamCity can also run builds in parallel simultaneously on different platforms and environments. Using TeamCity, you can have customized statistics on code quality, build duration, or even create custom metrics. It has a feature for running code coverage and it has a duplicates finder.

TeamCity concepts

In this section, some basic terms regularly used in TeamCity will be explained. This is necessary in order to understand some of the concepts required...