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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)

Setting up a DI container for ASP.NET Core MVC

Central to ASP.NET Core is DI. The framework provides built-in DI services to allow developers to create loosely coupled applications and prevent instantiation or construction of dependencies. Using the built-in DI services, your application code can be set up to use DI, and dependencies can be injected into methods in the Startup class. While the default DI container has some cool features, you can still use other known, matured DI containers in ASP.NET core applications.

You can configure your code to use DI in two modes:

  • Constructor Injection: The interfaces required by a class are passed or injected via the class's public constructor. Constructor injection is not possible using a private constructor, an InvalidOperationException will be thrown when this is attempted. In a class with an overloaded constructor, only one of...