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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

Technical challenges

There is a set of technical and business challenges an organization must overcome before adopting TDD. Here, we will cover the technical challenges, and in the next section, we will consider the team challenges and then the wider organization challenges (business challenges). We will start with a diagram to explain the workflow of rolling out TDD in your organization:

Figure 13.1 – Technical challenges when planning to move to TDD

We will go through the diagram in the next sub-sections, so let’s start.

Greenfield or brownfield?

If you are working on a brownfield project, the technical challenges were well presented in the previous chapter, so I will not go further into these challenges. To introduce TDD, you need to consider the effort, suitability, and alternatives.

If you are starting a new project (a greenfield project), then you are in luck. You can go ahead with your plan.

Tools and infrastructure

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