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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

Exploring domains

DDD is a collection of software design philosophies and best practices. There are a handful of books dedicated to DDD, and most of them are above 500 pages. So, we can talk a lot about DDD, but this book isn’t about DDD, so we will be brief.

DDD focuses on business logic and the interaction with the DB and the outside world and employs a set of practices for a robust software design. The word domain in DDD refers to a business domain, which can be car insurance, accounting, billing, banking, e-commerce, and others. DDD emphasizes the business domain, as per the term domain-driven.

Next, we will explore the architectural components that make the practical aspect of DDD.

Domain objects

A domain object is a representation of a real-life business entity. Exploring our blog project, the domain objects can be like this:

Figure 7.4 – The classes and structs contributing to a blog domain

You can see how the names of these...