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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)

Warning signs when writing untestable code

Effective and continuous practice of TDD can improve the code-writing process, making testing easier, which results in improved code quality and robust software application. However, when a project's code base contains portions of codes that are untestable, writing unit or integration tests becomes extremely difficult or nearly impossible.

Software development teams cannot emphatically validate the consistent behavior of the functionalities and features of an application when there is untestable code in a software project's code base. To avoid this preventable situation, writing code that is testable is not an option but a must for every serious development team that values quality software.

Untestable code results from the violation of common standards, practices, and principles that have been proven and tested to improve the...