INTERACTIVE COURSE

Mastering Unit Testing Principles with NUnit

Intermediate

58 Lessons

17h

Certificate of Completion

77 Playgrounds

29 Quizzes

29 Illustrations

Takeaway Skills

A thorough understanding of unit testing principles

Hands-on experience writing unit tests using the NUnit framework

Familiarity with practices that make testing effective, maintainable, and agile

Familiarity with testing industry practices, trends, and tools

Course Overview

Industry, employers, startups, and amateur developers are increasingly looking towards unit testing their software. Unit testing is one of the most reliable ways to find and keep software bugs at bay, thus reducing costs and development pains. Developers working with the .NET framework are overwhelmingly turning to NUnit to meet their unit testing needs. In this course, you’ll learn the principles of unit testing, and in the process, learn to configure and use the NUnit testing framework. Given that the co...Show More

Course Content

Fundamentals of Unit Testing

About This Course The Perils of Manual Testing The Perils of Software Regression The Essence of Automated Testing The Essence of Unit Testing Navigating Various Unit Test Frameworks Internal Structure of Test Methods Effectively Arranging Input Data for Test Cases Positive vs Negative Tests Identifying Application Code to Test Unit Test Coverage: Concepts and Techniques Unit Test Naming Conventions Unit Testing Best Practices Quiz Yourself on Introduction to Unit Testing Challenge: Test Using Best Practices Solution: Test Using Best Practices

Testing Conditions With Classic And Fluent Assertions

Summary of Classic and Fluent Assertions Working With Reference Types Asserting Strings Assert Value Categories Assertions and Test Cases for Enumerables and Collections Asserting Types Asserting Values in Range Testing Within and Outside of Contract Asserting Exceptions Quiz Yourself on Assertions Challenge: Using Appropriate Assertions Solution: Using Appropriate Assertions

Making Unit Testing More Effective

Reducing Code Redundancy Between our Test Cases Reducing Code Redundancy Within Test Cases Parameterizing Tests More Effectively Reducing Code Redundancy Using Many Test Fixtures Testing the Application Code Implementation Pitching Tests at the Right Level Test After Development Black-box Testing Test-Driven Development Quiz Yourself on Making Unit Testing More Effective Challenge: Unit Test Using Test After Development Solution: Unit Test Using Test After Development Challenge: Unit Test Using Test-Driven Development Solution: Unit Test Using Test-Driven Development

Unit Testing Code with External Dependencies

External Dependencies and Their Challenges

Convert From Tightly to Loosely Coupled Dependencies Using Dependency Injection Containers Bypassing External Dependencies with a Mocking Framework Quiz Yourself on Testing with Dependencies and Mocks Challenge: Using Mocks on Loosely Coupled Code Solution: Using Mocks on Loosely Coupled Code

Conclusion

Unit Testing in a Nutshell Glossary of Unit Testing and Related Terms Unit Testing Resources

Appendix - Unit Test Project Organization and Console Setup

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