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Pragmatic Test-Driven Development in C# and .NET

By : Adam Tibi
Book Image

Pragmatic Test-Driven Development in C# and .NET

By: Adam Tibi

Overview of this book

Test-driven development is a manifesto for incrementally adding features to a product but starting with the unit tests first. Today’s project templates come with unit tests by default and implementing them has become an expectation. It’s no surprise that TDD/unit tests feature in most job specifications and are important ingredients for most interviews and coding challenges. Adopting TDD will enforce good design practices and expedite your journey toward becoming a better coding architect. This book goes beyond the theoretical debates and focuses on familiarizing you with TDD in a real-world setting by using popular frameworks such as ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework. The book starts with the foundational elements before showing you how to use Visual Studio 2022 to build an appointment booking web application. To mimic real-life, you’ll be using EF, SQL Server, and Cosmos, and utilize patterns including repository, service, and builder. This book will also familiarize you with domain-driven design (DDD) and other software best practices, including SOLID and FIRSTHAND. By the end of this TDD book, you’ll have become confident enough to champion a TDD implementation. You’ll also be equipped with a business and technical case for rolling out TDD or unit testing to present to your management and colleagues.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Started and the Basics of TDD
8
Part 2: Building an Application with TDD
13
Part 3: Applying TDD to Your Projects

Implementation routes

We are going to implement the backend in different ways. Each implementation will yield the same API outcome, but the point of this would be experiencing multiple unit tests and test double scenarios with each implementation.

Your team might be using one of these architectural routes, as they might be utilizing a document DB or a relational DB as in the case of most modern apps.

Frontend

In this book, we focus more on the backend, so, implementing TDD on the frontend is not covered.

Important Note

There are unit testing frameworks that would test the front-end. One popular library for Blazor, which we will use here, is bUnit, which works side by side with xUnit.

Among all popular JavaScript single page application (SPA) platforms, such as React, Angular, and Vue, I decided to implement the frontend with Microsoft’s Blazor.

Blazor is a web framework that relies on C# instead of JavaScript. Simply put, Blazor converts C# into a low-level...