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From Zero to Hero: Test-Driven Development in C#
Learn Test-Driven Development (TDD) in C# from the ground up! This course covers everything from the basics to advanced TDD concepts, helping you write cleaner, more maintainable code.
About This Course
Test-Driven Development (or TDD for short) is one of the most essential
software development practices. It is a practice based on the simple idea
that instead of writing our code first and then later writing tests for it,
we write our tests first, and then we write code that makes those tests pass.
This approach has many advantages, from productivity gains to ensuring that
our work doesn't get out of scope to ultimately writing better, focused code
with cleaner interfaces and looser coupling. TDD can change the way we think
about building software. In this course, Gui Ferreira will teach you everything
you need to know to practice TDD, from the most basic concepts to some very
advanced ones and make it part of your software development lifecycle.
Course Curriculum
5h 41m 9 sections
What is TDD?
Benefits and drawbacks of TDD
"Test-First" vs "Test-After"
How to define a Unit in Unit Testing
Red-Green-Refactor cycle
The 3 Rules of TDD
Incrementalism
Section recap
The example we will work on
Creating a Testing List
Writing the first Tests
Using Tests as Documentation
Section recap
The example we will work on
Writing application level tests
What is a Test Double?
Building Dummies
Building Stubs
Building Spies
Building Mocks
Building Fakes
Fixtures, Setup, and Teardown
How to TDD on Integration Testing
Test-driving a Storage Adapter
Test-driving a REST API
Section recap
The example we will work on
Detroit vs London school
What is the Detroit School style?
What is the London School style?
Practicing TDD in a London School style
Section Recap
Naming Tests
How to organize tests
Applying Act-Arrange-Assert
Using 1 Assertion per test
Start from the end
Improving test readability
How to solve bugs with TDD
What are TDD Driving Patterns
Driving Patterns: Fake It
Driving Patterns: Triangulation
Driving Patterns: Obvious Implementation
The Four Rules to Simple Design
Anti-patterns and how to avoid them
Section recap
TDD in Agile software development and DevOps
How BDD and ATDD relate to TDD
How TDD relates to the Testing Pyramid
TDD and Source Control
Pair Programming when doing TDD
Defining Team testing policies
The value of Code Coverage when doing TDD
Using Mutation Testing to improve TDD skills
Handling Objections and Challenges to TDD Adoption
Section recap
The example we will work on
What is Legacy Code
How to use Approval Testing
Refactoring to Support Testing
Test-driving new Behaviour
Section recap
Conclusion
Meet Your Instructor
Gui Ferreira
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