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Carl-Hugo Marcotte
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Carl-Hugo Marcotte

Carl-Hugo Marcotte is a software craftsman who has developed digital products professionally since 2005, while his coding journey started around 1989 for fun. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science. He has acquired a solid background in software architecture and expertise in ASP.NET Core through creating a wide range of web and cloud applications, from custom e-commerce websites to enterprise applications. He served many customers as an independent consultant, taught programming, and is now a Principal Architect at Export Development Canada. Passionate about C#, ASP.NET Core, AI, automation, and Cloud computing, he fosters collaboration and the open-source ethos, sharing his expertise with the tech community.
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Organizing your tests

There are many ways of organizing test projects inside a solution, and I tend to create a unit test project for each project in the solution and one or more integration test projects.A unit test is directly related to a single unit of code, whether it’s a method or a class. It is straightforward to associate a unit test project with its respective code project (assembly), leading to a one-on-one relationship. One unit test project per assembly makes them portable, easier to navigate, and even more so when the solution grows.

If you have a preferred way to organize yours that differs from what we are doing in the book, by all means, use that approach instead.

Integration tests, on the other hand, can span multiple projects, so having a single rule that fits all scenarios is challenging. One integration test project per solution is often enough. Sometimes we can need more than one, depending on the context.

I recommend starting with one integration test project...

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Carl-Hugo Marcotte

Carl-Hugo Marcotte is a software craftsman who has developed digital products professionally since 2005, while his coding journey started around 1989 for fun. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science. He has acquired a solid background in software architecture and expertise in ASP.NET Core through creating a wide range of web and cloud applications, from custom e-commerce websites to enterprise applications. He served many customers as an independent consultant, taught programming, and is now a Principal Architect at Export Development Canada. Passionate about C#, ASP.NET Core, AI, automation, and Cloud computing, he fosters collaboration and the open-source ethos, sharing his expertise with the tech community.
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