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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

Creating a React app


For the application in this book, to maintain compatibility, you will want to use Node.js version 8.5.0, NPM version 5.4.2, and create-react-app version 1.4.0.

Execute the following commands to install and execute the app:

>npm install
>npm test
>npm start

All three commands should run successfully. After running npm test, you will need to exit the test run by hitting <q>. After running npm start, you will need to exit the server by hitting Ctrl + C.

Ejecting the app

Assuming the previous step went without a hitch, we can proceed to eject the React app. Again, as it has already been explained in detail in Chapter 3Setting up the JavaScript Environment, we will only do a short review here.

There is only a single command to eject the application. After ejection, we will want to rerun the commands in the previous section to ensure that the application still works as expected.

Execute the following command to eject:

>npm run eject

Configuring Mocha, Chai, Enzyme...