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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)

Unit testing consideration for ASP.NET MVC Core

The ASP.NET Core MVC development paradigm breaks a web application down into three distinct parts—the Model, View, and Controller, as per the tenets of the MVC architectural pattern. The Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern facilitates the creation of web applications that are easy to test and maintain, and have a clear separation of concerns and boundaries.

The MVC pattern provides a clear separation between presentation logic and business logic, with easy scalability and maintainability. It was originally designed for use with desktop applications but has since gained much use and popularity with web applications.

The ASP.NET Core MVC projects can be tested in the same manner that you test other types of .NET Core projects. ASP.NET Core supports the unit testing of controller classes, razor pages, page models, business logic...