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Practical Test-Driven Development using C# 7

By : John Callaway, Clayton Hunt
Book Image

Practical Test-Driven Development using C# 7

By: John Callaway, Clayton Hunt

Overview of this book

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a methodology that helps you to write as little as code as possible to satisfy software requirements, and ensures that what you've written does what it's supposed to do. If you're looking for a practical resource on Test-Driven Development this is the book for you. You've found a practical end-to-end guide that will help you implement Test-Driven Techniques for your software development projects. You will learn from industry standard patterns and practices, and shift from a conventional approach to a modern and efficient software testing approach in C# and JavaScript. This book starts with the basics of TDD and the components of a simple unit test. Then we look at setting up the testing framework so that you can easily run your tests in your development environment. You will then see the importance of defining and testing boundaries, abstracting away third-party code (including the .NET Framework), and working with different types of test double such as spies, mocks, and fakes. Moving on, you will learn how to think like a TDD developer when it comes to application development. Next, you'll focus on writing tests for new/changing requirements and covering newly discovered bugs, along with how to test JavaScript applications and perform integration testing. You’ll also learn how to identify code that is inherently un-testable, and identify some of the major problems with legacy applications that weren’t written with testability in mind. By the end of the book, you’ll have all the TDD skills you'll need and you’ll be able to re-enter the world as a TDD expert!
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
4
What to Know Before Getting Started
Index

What we've covered


You're likely not yet an expert. That's okay. There will be times when you may become stuck or doubt the benefits of TDD. Fret not. Reading this book has been but a step on the journey to becoming a TDD master. The road is long but well worth the time and effort devoted to this journey. You are a professional, a craftsman devoted to your trade.

By now, you should feel confident setting up your development environment. You can configure your IDE of choice to run your suite of unit tests. You should be comfortable with choosing a test runner and the specific nuances and features involved in that choice. And, of course, you know how to assemble a comprehensive set of unit tests.

You can grow an application guided by tests. Refactoring should now be a breeze as you have the confidence to move code around without introducing breaking changes. You can demonstrate correctness to application stakeholders and you have guarded against regression bugs with the confidence provided by...