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Practical Test-Driven Development using C# 7

By : John Callaway, Clayton Hunt
Book Image

Practical Test-Driven Development using C# 7

By: John Callaway, Clayton Hunt

Overview of this book

Test-Driven Development (TDD) is a methodology that helps you to write as little as code as possible to satisfy software requirements, and ensures that what you've written does what it's supposed to do. If you're looking for a practical resource on Test-Driven Development this is the book for you. You've found a practical end-to-end guide that will help you implement Test-Driven Techniques for your software development projects. You will learn from industry standard patterns and practices, and shift from a conventional approach to a modern and efficient software testing approach in C# and JavaScript. This book starts with the basics of TDD and the components of a simple unit test. Then we look at setting up the testing framework so that you can easily run your tests in your development environment. You will then see the importance of defining and testing boundaries, abstracting away third-party code (including the .NET Framework), and working with different types of test double such as spies, mocks, and fakes. Moving on, you will learn how to think like a TDD developer when it comes to application development. Next, you'll focus on writing tests for new/changing requirements and covering newly discovered bugs, along with how to test JavaScript applications and perform integration testing. You’ll also learn how to identify code that is inherently un-testable, and identify some of the major problems with legacy applications that weren’t written with testability in mind. By the end of the book, you’ll have all the TDD skills you'll need and you’ll be able to re-enter the world as a TDD expert!
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
4
What to Know Before Getting Started
Index

Installing the .NET Core SDK


Before you get started with the development environments, you will want to install the .NET Core SDK. You'll need to navigate to the .NET Core download page on the Microsoft website (https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/core). Select the proper installer for your system. For Windows machines, the .exe download is recommended.

Follow the onscreen instructions for the install wizard to install the .NET Core SDK.

Getting set up with VS Code

One benefit of choosing VS Code for your development is that it is an excellent IDE for both .NET and JavaScript. To get started using VS Code, you must first download the IDE. 

Downloading the IDE

Visit the VS Code website (https://code.visualstudio.com/) and choose the proper version for your operating system:

Installing the VS Code

Follow the instructions in the wizard to install the VS Code:

Be sure to read and accept the License Agreement:

Choose a location on your hard drive to install VS Code. The default path is usually acceptable...