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DevOps with Windows Server 2016

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DevOps with Windows Server 2016

Overview of this book

Delivering applications swiftly is one of the major challenges faced in fast-paced business environments. Windows Server 2016 DevOps is the solution to these challenges as it helps organizations to respond faster in order to handle the competitive pressures by replacing error-prone manual tasks using automation. This book is a practical description and implementation of DevOps principles and practices using the features provided by Windows Server 2016 and VSTS vNext. It jumps straight into explaining the relevant tools and technologies needed to implement DevOps principles and practices. It implements all major DevOps practices and principles and takes readers through it from envisioning a project up to operations and further. It uses the latest and upcoming concepts and technologies from Microsoft and open source such as Docker, Windows Container, Nano Server, DSC, Pester, and VSTS vNext. By the end of this book, you will be well aware of the DevOps principles and practices and will have implemented all these principles practically for a sample application using the latest technologies on the Microsoft platform. You will be ready to start implementing DevOps within your project/engagement.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
DevOps with Windows Server 2016
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
Acknowledgments
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Unit testing


Controllers are the core for working of the ASP.NET MVC application. They are the first point of contact for request and coordinates both with models and views to send response back to user. Unit testing refers to the process of testing every code path in isolation to verify its actual working compared with an expected result. Unit test are written as part of unit testing process and includes multiple small and discrete tests.

Although a fully functional application consists of hundreds and thousands of unit tests, for the purpose of OnlinePharmacy sample application, few unit test are written and executed to demonstrate unit testing process as part of DevOps continuous integration practice and validate the correctness of code.

In general, controllers invoke data access operations either directly in its class or indirectly by delegating data access operations to some dedicated class. In both cases, the calls are time-consuming and resource intensive in nature. Having hundreds...