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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

Understanding test projects

xUnit templates come as part of VS. We will show how to add an xUnit project using the .NET CLI approach. At this stage, if you have not opened the companion source code that is ported from Chapter 2, Understanding Dependency Injection by Example, to this chapter, I encourage you to do so.

Adding xUnit via the CLI

Currently, we have a solution with one ASP.NET Core project. Now, we want to add the unit tests library to our solution. To do so, create a new xUnit project called Uqs.Weather.Tests.Unit in a directory with the same name, and use .NET 6.0:

dotnet new xunit -o Uqs.Weather.Tests.Unit -f net6.0

Add the newly created project to the solution file:

dotnet sln add Uqs.Weather.Tests.Unit

Now, we have two projects in our solution. As the unit test project will be testing the ASP.NET Core project, the unit test project should have a reference to the ASP.NET Core project.

Add a project reference from Uqs.Weather.Tests.Unit on Uqs.Weather...