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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

Implementing the WebApis with TDD

To build the WebApi project, we are going to look at each requirement from Chapter 8, Designing an Appointment Booking App, and provide the implementation that satisfies it using TDD style.

The requirements are all stated in terms of the Website and its functionality, and they do not dictate how to build our APIs. The Website will have to call the WebApis for any business logic as it has no access to the DB and deals with UI-related business logic only.

This chapter is dedicated to EF for a good reason as we want you to appreciate fakes, which are not as popular as mocks, both from the test doubles family. Also, it will be a typical example of a .NET solution of an ASP.NET Core and a relational DB implementation.

In this section, we will cover working in TDD mode, taking into consideration our persistence provider, EF.

Using the EF in-memory provider

To make our life easier when unit testing the system, we want to abstract the database...