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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

Rejoining the world as a TDD expert


It is now time to rejoin the world as a TDD expert. Don't worry if you don't quite feel like an expert yet. You likely have more knowledge than at least one co-worker or peer. To them, you are the expert with knowledge to share. Go forth and share that knowledge. But remember, there is always more to learn.

Seek a mentor

It may be beneficial to seek out a mentor or mentors. There is likely someone in your community with TDD knowledge who is willing to speak with you. They could be employees of your company or members of the tech community in your city. Seek them out and offer to buy them lunch or meet for coffee. You may find that they’re thrilled to find someone else willing and eager to discuss TDD as a practice.

User groups and meetups are a great place to network. Look for meetings in your area that you could attend. TDD has become a hot topic in recent years and you're likely to find a meeting close by. The programming language may be different from...