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Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core

By : Gaurav Aroraa, Tadit Dash
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Building RESTful Web Services with .NET Core

By: Gaurav Aroraa, Tadit Dash

Overview of this book

REST is an architectural style that tackles the challenges of building scalable web services. In today's connected world, APIs have taken a central role on the web. APIs provide the fabric through which systems interact, and REST has become synonymous with APIs. The depth, breadth, and ease of use of ASP.NET Core makes it a breeze for developers to work with for building robust web APIs. This book takes you through the design of RESTful web services and leverages the ASP.NET Core framework to implement these services. This book begins by introducing you to the basics of the philosophy behind REST. You'll go through the steps of designing and implementing an enterprise-grade RESTful web service. This book takes a practical approach, that you can apply to your own circumstances. This book brings forth the power of the latest .NET Core release, working with MVC. Later, you will learn about the use of the framework to explore approaches to tackle resilience, security, and scalability concerns. You will explore the steps to improve the performance of your applications. You'll also learn techniques to deal with security in web APIs and discover how to implement unit and integration test strategies. By the end of the book, you will have a complete understanding of Building a client for RESTful web services, along with some scaling techniques.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Testing approach

In general, a testing approach is an execution path illustrating how testing will be carried out. These approaches vary system to system; if one system requires a consultative approach, it does not mean that another system does. Different systems need different testing approaches.

A testing approach is a test strategy that is nothing but an implementation of a system or project.

Testing strategies should be clear to everyone so that the created tests can help non-technical members of the team (such as stakeholders) understand how the system is working. Such tests can be automated, such as testing the business flow, or they can be manual tests that can be performed by a user working on the User Acceptance Testing system.

Testing strategies or approaches have the following techniques:

  • Proactive: This is a kind of early approach and tries to fix defects before...