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Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core

By : Gaurav Aroraa, Tadit Dash
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Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core

By: Gaurav Aroraa, Tadit Dash

Overview of this book

REST is an architectural style that tackles the challenges of building scalable web services. In today's connected world, APIs have taken a central role on the web. APIs provide the fabric through which systems interact, and REST has become synonymous with APIs. The depth, breadth, and ease of use of ASP.NET Core makes it a breeze for developers to work with for building robust web APIs. This book takes you through the design of RESTful web services and leverages the ASP.NET Core framework to implement these services. This book begins by introducing you to the basics of the philosophy behind REST. You'll go through the steps of designing and implementing an enterprise-grade RESTful web service. This book takes a practical approach, that you can apply to your own circumstances. This book brings forth the power of the latest .NET Core release, working with MVC. Later, you will learn about the use of the framework to explore approaches to tackle resilience, security, and scalability concerns. You will explore the steps to improve the performance of your applications. You'll also learn techniques to deal with security in web APIs and discover how to implement unit and integration test strategies. By the end of the book, you will have a complete understanding of Building a client for RESTful web services, along with some scaling techniques.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Test paradigms

In the previous section, we saw that testing and quality assurance is one of the most important parts of the software development cycle. We should take steps to design a framework that tests the software, which is called a test paradigm.

A test paradigm is a framework of testing. It is based on the way one plans on implementing testing. In short, a test paradigm is a testing methodology.

A test method is where you decide how to create test cases, including what its language will be, how you will document the test cases, and so on. This also tells you how you are going to execute the test methods (for example, with black box testing).

A test method is an approach that tests or verifies the specific output on the basis of specific inputs, without knowing the internal functionality of a system.

Before we create test cases or develop a test paradigm or framework...