Using Fluent Assertions to Improve Readability
Explore how to use Fluent Assertions in combination with xUnit to write clear and expressive unit tests in .NET. Learn to create human-readable assertions that provide detailed failure messages and improve the clarity and maintainability of your test code.
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Fluent Assertions is a popular assertion library for unit testing in .NET applications, and xUnit is a popular unit testing framework for .NET. Combining Fluent Assertions with xUnit can provide several benefits for our unit testing efforts, including the following:
Readability: Fluent Assertions provides a more natural and readable way to express our assertions. Its Fluent API allows us to chain methods, creating assertions that read like plain English sentences. This can make our test code more understandable and maintainable.
Expressive assertions: Fluent Assertions offers a wide range of assertion methods that cover various scenarios. We can write expressive assertions for equality checks, collection comparisons, exception handling, etc. ...