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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

FIRSTHAND accumulates valuable guidelines and best practices in the industry. I trust this chapter topped up the learnings of the previous chapters to help you understand TDD and its ecosystem. I also hope that it made these guidelines memorable as TDD comes up often in developer discussions and it is certainly likely to be an interview topic.

This chapter marks the end of this section, where we looked at dependency injection, unit testing, and TDD. This section was only an introduction to TDD, with scattered small and mid-size examples. If you’ve made it to this point, then hats off, you have covered the basics of TDD.

The next section will take all the basics and apply them to more lifelike scenarios. To make sure that you are ready for this application and to mimic a realistic application that uses TDD, our next chapter will be about domain-driven design (DDD) as you will be using the DDD concepts in later chapters.