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Pragmatic Test-Driven Development in C# and .NET

You're reading from   Pragmatic Test-Driven Development in C# and .NET Write loosely coupled, documented, and high-quality code with DDD using familiar tools and libraries

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803230191
Length 372 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Getting Started and the Basics of TDD
2. Chapter 1: Writing Your First TDD Implementation FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Understanding Dependency Injection by Example 4. Chapter 3: Getting Started with Unit Testing 5. Chapter 4: Real Unit Testing with Test Doubles 6. Chapter 5: Test-Driven Development Explained 7. Chapter 6: The FIRSTHAND Guidelines of TDD 8. Part 2: Building an Application with TDD
9. Chapter 7: A Pragmatic View of Domain-Driven Design 10. Chapter 8: Designing an Appointment Booking App 11. Chapter 9: Building an Appointment Booking App with Entity Framework and Relational DB 12. Chapter 10: Building an App with Repositories and Document DB 13. Part 3: Applying TDD to Your Projects
14. Chapter 11: Implementing Continuous Integration with GitHub Actions 15. Chapter 12: Dealing with Brownfield Projects 16. Chapter 13: The Intricacies of Rolling Out TDD 17. Index 18. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix 1: Commonly Used Libraries with Unit Tests 1. Appendix 2: Advanced Mocking Scenarios

The Readability guideline

Is this method readable? Do you need to run it and start debugging to understand what it does? Does the Arrange section make your eyes bleed? This might be violating the readability principle.

Having the Intention guideline established is fabulous, but it is not enough. You will have at least 10x more lines of code in your unit tests compared to your production code. All this needs to be maintained and grow with the rest of your system.

Tidying up the unit test for readability follows the same practices as the production code. However, there are some scenarios that are more dominant in unit tests, which we are going to address here.

SUT constructor initialization

Initializing your SUT will require that you prepare all the dependencies and pass them to the SUT, something like this:

// Arrange
const double NEXT_T = 3.3;
const double DAY5_T = 7.7;
var today = new DateTime(2022, 1, 1);
var realWeatherTemps = new[] 
    {2, NEXT_T...
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