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Clean Code in C#

You're reading from   Clean Code in C# Refactor your legacy C# code base and improve application performance by applying best practices

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838982973
Length 500 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jason Alls Jason Alls
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Coding Standards and Principles in C# 2. Code Review – Process and Importance FREE CHAPTER 3. Classes, Objects, and Data Structures 4. Writing Clean Functions 5. Exception Handling 6. Unit Testing 7. End-to-End System Testing 8. Threading and Concurrency 9. Designing and Developing APIs 10. Securing APIs with API Keys and Azure Key Vault 11. Addressing Cross-Cutting Concerns 12. Using Tools to Improve Code Quality 13. Refactoring C# Code – Identifying Code Smells 14. Refactoring C# Code – Implementing Design Patterns 15. Assessments 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding the testing tools

The testing tools we'll be looking at within Visual Studio are MSTest, NUnit, Moq, and SpecFlow. Each testing tool creates a console application and the relevant test project. NUnit and MSTest are unit testing frameworks. NUnit is much older than MSTest, and so has a more mature and full-featured API compared to MSTest. I personally prefer NUnit over MSTest.

Moq is different from MSTest and NUnit as it is not a testing framework but a mocking framework. A mocking framework replaces the real classes in your project with mock (fake) implementations that are used for testing purposes. You can use Moq together with MSTest or NUnit. And finally, SpecFlow is a BDD framework. You start by writing a feature in a feature file using business language that the user and the techy alike will understand. Then a step file is generated for that feature. The step file contains the methods as steps necessary to implement that feature.

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