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C# and .NET Core Test Driven Development

By : Ayobami Adewole
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C# and .NET Core Test Driven Development

By: Ayobami Adewole

Overview of this book

This book guides developers to create robust, production-ready C# 7 and .NET Core applications through the practice of test-driven development process. In C# and .NET Core Test-Driven Development, you will learn the different stages of the TDD life cycle, basics of TDD, best practices, and anti-patterns. It will teach you how to create an ASP.NET Core MVC sample application, write testable code with SOLID principles and set up a dependency injection for your sample application. Next, you will learn the xUnit testing framework and learn how to use its attributes and assertions. You’ll see how to create data-driven unit tests and mock dependencies in your code. You will understand the difference between running and debugging your tests on .NET Core on LINUX versus Windows and Visual Studio. As you move forward, you will be able to create a healthy continuous integration process for your sample application using GitHub, TeamCity, Cake, and Microsoft VSTS. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to write clean and robust code through the effective practice of TDD, set up CI build steps to test and build applications as well as how to package application for deployment on NuGet.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Exploring Test-Driven Development

In order to craft robust, maintainable, and scalable software applications, software development teams and stakeholders must make certain important decisions early in the software development process. These decision makers must adopt the software industry's tested and proven best practices and standards throughout the different stages of software development.

The quality of software projects can quickly degrade when developers build the code base using development approaches, coding styles, and practices that automatically make source code rigid and difficult to maintain. This chapter points out the habits and practices that result in writing bad code and should therefore be avoided. The programming habits, development styles, and approaches that should be learned to facilitate writing clean and maintainable code are explained.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Difficulty in maintaining code
  • How bad code gets that way
  • What we can do to prevent bad code
  • The principles of test-driven development
  • The test-driven development cycle