.NET Training Overview
An emerging software engineering paradigm is test-driven development, where tests are written early and testing is performed continuously during the development process. Problems are discovered early and corrected when they are found. This one-day course for developers explains the methodology of test-driven development and the use of the unit testing framework that comes with Visual Studio 2012 Professional Edition and higher. Visual Studio 2012 brings major changes to the unit testing framework, including a pluggable architecture that enables integration with third-party test frameworks. This topic is covered in an appendix.
The course is practical, with many example programs and tests written in C#, including a cumulative case study. The goal is to quickly bring you up to speed in doing unit testing in your .NET development projects. The student will receive a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the programming examples.
.NET Training Learning objectives
- Understand the principles of test-driven development
- Acquire fluency in developing tests using the Visual Studio unit testing framework
- Efficiently exercise test suites using Visual Studio and MSTest
- Integrate third-party unit test frameworks such as NUnit into Visual Studio
.NET Training Prerequisites
The student should have a basic knowledge of the .NET Framework and experience programming in C# with Visual Studio
.NET Training Course duration
1 day.
.NET Training Course outline
1. Test-Driven Development |
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What Is Test-Driven Development (TDD)?
Functional Tests / Customer Tests
Unit Tests / Programmer Tests
Test Automation
Simple Design
Refactoring
A Visual Studio Test Drive
TDD with Legacy Code
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2. Visual Studio Unit Testing Fundamentals |
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Structure of Unit Tests
Unit Testing Framework
Assertions
Test Cases
Test Fixtures
Test Runners
Ignoring Tests
Initialization and Cleanup
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3. More about Unit Testing Framework |
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Expected Exceptions
Custom Asserts
Debugging Unit Tests
MSTest
Refactoring
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Appendix A. Third-Party Unit Test Frameworks |
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Integrating Third-Party Unit Test Frameworks into Visual Studio
NUnit Test Adapter
Running NUnit Tests within Visual Studio |
System Requirements
Course exercises require Visual Studio 2012 Professional or higher and a Windows 7 SP1 operating system, or more recent.
A good minimal hardware profile for this course would have a 1.8 GHz or equivalent CPU, 2 GB of RAM, and at least 10 GB of free disk space for tools installation and courseware.
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