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C# and .NET Core Test-Driven Development

You're reading from C# and .NET Core Test-Driven Development Dive into TDD to create flexible, maintainable, and production-ready .NET Core applications

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2018

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781788292481

Length 300 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

.NET

Concepts

Test Driven Development

Author (1):

Ayobami Adewole

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

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Preface

1. Exploring Test-Driven Development FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Started with .NET Core

3. Writing Testable Code

4. .NET Core Unit Testing

5. Data-Driven Unit Tests

6. Mocking Dependencies

7. Continuous Integration and Project Hosting

8. Creating Continuous Integration Build Processes

9. Testing and Packaging the Application

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Integrating data from other sources

While you can write basic data-driven tests with the xUnit.net theory attributes discussed earlier, there are times where you want to do more, such as connecting to an SQL Server database table to fetch data to be used in executing your tests. Earlier versions of xUnit.net had other attributes from xUnit.net.extensions that allow you to easily get data from different sources to be used in your tests. The xUnit.net.extensions package is no longer available in xUnit.net v2.

However, the classes in xUnit.net.extensions are available in sample projects at: https://github.com/xUnit.net/samples.xUnit.net. The code from the sample projects can be copied to your project if you wish to use this attribute.

SqlServerData attribute

Inside the SqlDataExample folder of the projects, there are files that can be copied to your project to give you the functionality of getting data by connecting directly to an SQL Server database or any data source that can be accessed using...

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Authors (1)

Ayobami Adewole

Ayobami Adewole

Ayobami Adewole comes from Ibadan city in Nigeria. He is very passionate about computers and what they can be programmed to do. He is an ardent lover of the .NET stack of technologies and has developed several cutting-edge enterprise applications using the platform. He offers consultancy services on VoIP and Unified Communication technologies, Customer Relationship Management Systems, Business Process Automation, Enterprise Application Development, and Quality Assurance.

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