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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)

The benefits of data-driven unit testing

Data-driven unit testing is a concept known to provide great insight into code behavior, due to it being able to execute tests with different sets of data. The insight gained through data-driven unit testing can assist in making informed decisions about application development approaches and can identify potential areas that need improvement. Strategies can be formulated from reports and code coverage available from data unit tests, which can later be used to refactor code with potential performance issues and bugs in the application logic.

Some of the benefits of data-driven unit testing are explained in the following sections.

Tests brevity

Through data-driven tests, it is easier...