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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

Summary

We have seen implementing realistic stories by setting up the system with EF and SQL Server, then building it a bit at a time by incrementally adding unit tests and increasing the complexity with every additional unit test.

We have seen a realistic fake test double and a concrete builder to construct our sample data.

We had to select multiple important scenarios to encourage you to examine the full source code, otherwise, the pages will be filled with code.

If you have read and understood the code, then I assure you that this is the peak of the complexity, as other chapters should be easier to read and follow. So congratulations, you have made it through the hard part of this book! I trust you can now go ahead and start your TDD-based project with EF and a relational DB.

Hopefully, this chapter has given you a guide to starting your new EF and SQL Server-based project. The next chapter does the same implementation but focuses on document DB and has different patterns...