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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

In this chapter, we touched on basic unit testing-related topics, and we went through several examples.

If I was to categorize unit testing experience from 1 to 5, with level 1 being a beginner and 5 being an expert, this chapter should get you to level 2. Fear not! After going through the rest of the book, where more realistic examples will come, you will be at level 4, so I am glad you have made it so far. Keep going!

Is this book going to take me to level 5? I hear you asking. Well, unit testing is not a sprint, it is a marathon; it takes years of practice to get to that level, and only getting your hands dirty in unit testing will get you there.

We also covered the relationship between SOLID principles and unit testing to show you the big picture and how everything fits nicely together.

In this chapter, I have deliberately avoided examples that require a deep understanding of test doubles, so as to introduce you to unit testing in a gentle way. However, in reality...