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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 compared unit tests with its siblings: integration and Sintegration tests. We listed test doubles and gave an example of each, and we have also seen xUnit and NSubstitute in action.

Our journey with understanding unit testing and test doubles will not stop here, but we will cover more examples of the two topics across the rest of the book.

So far, you can consider the experience from this chapter to take you to TDD level 3 out of 5! And now, you should be able to write a basic unit test that uses test doubles.

We have not covered the advantages and disadvantages of unit testing—yes, it has disadvantages! We have also not covered how TDD relates to unit testing and the best practices of unit testing because this is the role of the next chapter, Test-Driven Development Explained.