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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)

Property data-driven unit tests

The lack of flexibility encountered when writing inline data-driven tests can be overcome through the use of property data-driven tests. Property data-driven unit tests are written in xUnit.net through the use of the MemberData and ClassData attributes. Using the two attributes, data theories can be created with data loaded from disparate data sources, such as files or databases.

MemberData attribute

The MemberData attribute is used when data theories are to be created and loaded with data rows coming from following data sources:

  • Static property
  • Static field
  • Static method

When using MemberData, the data source must return independent object sets that are compatible with IEnumerable<object...