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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

Test-Driven Development Explained

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a set of practices on top of unit tests. They alter the way you design your code and you write unit tests. Basically, it is a different approach to writing code than the classical technique of writing code and then testing it after.

It is a cliché to say that TDD is not just doing testing first, but rather than me telling you otherwise, you will decide yourself after going through Chapters 5 and 6.

In this chapter, we will:

  • Go through TDD pillars
  • Implement a software feature following the TDD style
  • Converse the FAQs and criticism around the subject
  • Discuss having TDD with Sintegration testing

By the end of the chapter, you will be able to use TDD to write basic coding tasks and understand the topics around the subject and where TDD fits in the software ecosystem.