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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)

Writing build scripts in C#

Automating the build and deployment tasks using Cake allows you to avoid issues and headaches associated with project deployments. A build script usually contains the steps and logic required to build and deploy the source code alongside configuration files and other artifacts of a project.

Using the sample build.cake file available on the Cake resource repository can be a starting point for writing a build script for a project. However, to achieve more, we will walk through some basic Cake concepts that can facilitate writing robust scripts for automating build and deployment tasks.

Task

At the core of the build automation with Cake is the task. A task in Cake is a simple unit of work that is used...