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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we started by executing the xUnit.net test with Cake. Also, we extensively discussed .NET Core versioning, the concepts, and how it affects application development on the .NET Core platform. Later, we packaged the LoanApplication project that was used in this book for NuGet distribution.

You have been taken through an exciting TDD journey in this book. Using the xUnit.net unit test framework, the concept of TDD was introduced and discussed extensively. Data-driven unit tests were covered, which allow you to test your code with data from different data sources.

The Moq framework was used to introduce and explain how to unit test code with dependencies. The TeamCity CI server was used to explain the concepts of CI. Cake, a cross-platform build system was explored and used to create build steps executed in TeamCity. Also, Microsoft VSTS, another CI tool,...