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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)

Cake Extension for Visual Studio

The Cake Extension for Visual Studio Add-in brings language support for Cake build scripts to Visual Studio. The extension supports new templates, a task runner explorer, and the ability to bootstrap Cake files. Cake Extension for Visual Studio can be downloaded at Visual Studio Market Place (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vs-publisher-1392591.CakeforVisualStudio).

The .vsix file downloaded from the marketplace is essentially a .zip file. This file contains the contents of the Cake extensions to be installed in Visual Studio. When the downloaded .vsix file is run, it will install Cake support for Visual Studio 2015 and 2017:

Cake templates

After installing the extension...