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Pragmatic Test-Driven Development in C# and .NET

Pragmatic Test-Driven Development in C# and .NET

By : Adam Tibi
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Pragmatic Test-Driven Development in C# and .NET

Pragmatic Test-Driven Development in C# and .NET

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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)
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Part 1: Getting Started and the Basics of TDD
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Part 2: Building an Application with TDD
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Part 3: Applying TDD to Your Projects

Unit testing helper libraries

I have seen developers adding these two libraries to their unit tests to enhance the syntax and readability: Fluent Assertions and AutoFixture.

Fluent Assertions

Fluent implementation, also known as a fluent interface, is trying to make the code read like an English sentence. Take this example:

Is.Equal.To(…);

Some developers like to have the tests written in this way as it supports a more natural way of reading a test. Some like it for their own reasons.

FluentAssertions is a popular library that integrates with all popular test frameworks among MSTest, Nunit, and xUnit to enable fluent interfaces. You can add it to your unit test project via NuGet under the name FluentAssertions.

Let’s see how our code will be without and with the library:

// Without
Assert.Equal(LAT, actualLat);
// With
actualLat.Should().Be(LAT);

But the previous snippet doesn’t show the true power of the library, so let’s do some...

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