You're reading from Pragmatic Test-Driven Development in C# and .NET

Product type Book

Published in Sep 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803230191

Pages 372 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Test Driven Development

Author (1):

Adam Tibi

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Getting Started and the Basics of TDD

2. Chapter 1: Writing Your First TDD Implementation

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

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18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix 1: Commonly Used Libraries with Unit Tests

1. Appendix 2: Advanced Mocking Scenarios

Implementing a CI process with GitHub Actions

Initially, when I was designing the guidelines for the chapters in this book, I was planning to give a sample implementation using Azure DevOps, as it has a popular CI system. However, GitHub Actions climbed up fast and quickly became the developers’ choice in configuring a CI system, so I changed my mind and I am going to use GitHub Actions instead.

GitHub Actions can deal with multiple programming stacks; one of them is .NET Core, which is what we are concerned about in this chapter.

Obviously, you will need to have a GitHub account for using GitHub Actions and you will be glad to know that the free tier gives you 2,000 minutes/month of running time, which should be enough for a small solo project.

Next, we are going to use GitHub Actions as a CI system for the project in Chapter 10, Building an App with Repositories and Document DB you don’t need to have read the chapter, we just want a solution that has a project...