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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

Business challenges

The business here means a higher technical authority outside the team, who can enforce rules. Also, it can be the project manager or the product owner.

I believe that a successful rollout of TDD or unit testing comes from top to bottom, management-wise. Enforcement can come from:

  • Head of development
  • Development manager
  • Team lead
  • Technical lead
  • IT auditing

If this is a personal initiative or a team initiative, the team might think of dropping it under delivery pressure. However, if they are responsible for providing unit tests as part of the delivery, including a coverage level, then it cannot be missed.

Let’s think of TDD from the business perspective, so that we are better equipped and articulated in getting our points across.

Business benefits of TDD

We are well aware of what the benefits of TDD are from a technical point of view. But businesses would be more open to the benefits from the business point of view...