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Pragmatic Test-Driven Development in C# and .NET

By : Adam Tibi
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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

Planning your code and project structure

In Chapter 8, Designing an Appointment Booking App, we planned our domain and analyzed what we needed to do. The project architecture will follow the classical three-tier applications of the client application (the website), business logic (the web APIs), and database (SQL Server). Let’s translate this into VS solutions and projects.

In this section, we will create the solution, create the projects, and wire up the components.

Analyzing the project’s structure

Ask a group of senior developers to come up with a project structure, and you will end up with multiple structures! In this section, we will discuss a way of organizing your project structure that I have developed over the years.

Given that we are first going to build a website for the user and later a mobile app (not covered in this book), it makes sense to isolate the business logic to a WebApi project that can be shared by both the website and the mobile app...