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Refactoring with C#

By : Matt Eland
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Book Image

Refactoring with C#

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By: Matt Eland

Overview of this book

Software projects start as brand-new greenfield projects, but invariably become muddied in technical debt far sooner than you’d expect. In Refactoring with C#, you'll explore what technical debt is and how it arises before walking through the process of safely refactoring C# code using modern tooling in Visual Studio and more recent C# language features using C# 12 and .NET 8. This book will guide you through the process of refactoring safely through advanced unit testing with XUnit and libraries like Moq, Snapper, and Scientist .NET. You'll explore maintainable code through SOLID principles and defensive coding techniques made possible in newer versions of C#. You'll also find out how to run code analysis and write custom Roslyn analyzers to detect and resolve issues unique to your code. The nature of coding is changing, and you'll explore how to use AI with the GitHub Copilot Chat to refactor, test, document, and generate code before ending with a discussion about communicating technical debt to leadership and getting organizational buy-in to refactor your code in enterprise organizations and in agile teams. By the end of this book, you'll understand the nature of refactoring and see how you can safely, effectively, and repeatably pay down the technical debt in your application while adding value to your business.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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Part 1: Refactoring with C# in Visual Studio
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Part 2: Refactoring Safely
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Part 3: Advanced Refactoring with AI and Code Analysis
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Part 4: Refactoring in the Enterprise

Refactoring unit tests

Unit tests are code, and like other types of code, they can degrade in quality over time when not given proper respect and proactive refactoring.

Hence, when you see code smells such as duplicated code that appears in most of your tests, it’s a sign that your tests need to be refactored.

In this section, we’ll explore several ways of refactoring your test code.

Parameterizing tests with Theory and InlineData

When we think about the similarities between our two tests, they only vary based on the values being passed into the method we’re testing and the value we expect the result to be.

Thinking about our test method, this is a clear case where it’d be wonderful to have parameters that could go into one test method that could represent multiple unit tests, each testing something slightly different, but with similar code.

As you may recall from earlier, unit tests that use Fact cannot have any parameters to them. However...