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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

Summary


Our journey has come to an end, but fear not. You now are well equipped to enter the world as a TDD master. 

You not only understand how to develop with a TDD mindset, you also know why TDD is so important to develop testable, extensible, and maintainable software applications. Your IDE is set up to test C# and/or JavaScript applications and you have a continuous feedback loop on the quality of your software.

You understand the importance of defining and testing the boundaries of an application and the benefits of abstracting away third-party code (including the .NET Framework). Spies, mocks, and fakes, and how best to employ them are now well understood. 

Approaching a green-field application with TDD is mind should now be almost trivial. Take the broader problem of the overall application and break it into meaningful chunks that can be developed independently. You have learned different approaches to developing an application such as: front to back, back to front, and inside out....