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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)

Getting Started with .NET Core

When Microsoft released the first version of .NET Framework, a platform for creating, running, and deploying services and applications, it was a game changer and a revolution in the Microsoft development community. Several cutting-edge applications were developed with the initial version of the framework and then several versions were released afterwards.

.NET Framework has thrived and matured over the years with support for multiple programming languages and the inclusion of several features to make programming on the platform easy and worthwhile. But as robust and appealing the framework is, there is the limitation of restricting the development and deployment of applications to Microsoft-only operating system variants.

In order to create a cloud-optimized, cross-platform implementation of .NET Framework for developers to solve the limitations...