Zero to 60 Unit Testing in C#

GOTOpia February 2021

In this masterclass we will learn essential unit testing and test-driven skills and techniques for writing unit tests in a readable, maintainable, and trustworthy fashion, so that we can feel more confident in our code, make it simpler, and save ourselves time in debugging and maintaining our code base.

• Learn how to write readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests using C#,XUnit, NUnit and other unit testing tools and frameworks.
• Learn how to refactor and test legacy code, and what to do when we cannot change existing code.
• Learn the principles of Test Driven Development, and develop new features using TDD.
• Learn how to Pair Program, and experience it throughout the course
• Learn about mocks, stubs fakes, and the difference between them
• Learn about Isolation(mocking) frameworks, how they work, and why some frameworks are more capable than others

Interactive Agenda

• The first unit test, Entry points & Exit Points
• Basic XUnit/NUnit APIs, test runners, tips and tricks
• Writing readable tests
• Test Driven Development Introduction
• TDD Kata Exercises
• Understanding Fakes, Mocks, and Stubs
• Hand Written Fakes, Stubs, and Mocks
• Interaction Test Exercises
• Isolation Frameworks: Constrained and Unconstrained
• Isolation Framework Comparisons (Moq, FakeItEasy, NSubstitute)
• Interaction Test Exercises part 2
• Unit Testing Good Practices
• Legacy Code Refactoring Essential Techniques
• Exercises in Legacy Refactoring