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Web API Development with ASP.NET Core 8

You're reading from   Web API Development with ASP.NET Core 8 Learn techniques, patterns, and tools for building high-performance, robust, and scalable web APIs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804610954
Length 804 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Xiaodi Yan Xiaodi Yan
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Web APIs 2. Chapter 2: Getting Started with ASP.NET Core Web APIs FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: ASP.NET Core Fundamentals (Part 1) 4. Chapter 4: ASP.NET Core Fundamentals (Part 2) 5. Chapter 5: Data Access in ASP.NET Core (Part 1: Entity Framework Core Fundamentals) 6. Chapter 6: Data Access in ASP.NET Core (Part 2 – Entity Relationships) 7. Chapter 7: Data Access in ASP.NET Core (Part 3: Tips) 8. Chapter 8: Security and Identity in ASP.NET Core 9. Chapter 9: Testing in ASP.NET Core (Part 1 – Unit Testing) 10. Chapter 10: Testing in ASP.NET Core (Part 2 – Integration Testing) 11. Chapter 11: Getting Started with gRPC 12. Chapter 12: Getting Started with GraphQL 13. Chapter 13: Getting Started with SignalR 14. Chapter 14: CI/CD for ASP.NET Core Using Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions 15. Chapter 15: ASP.NET Core Web API Common Practices 16. Chapter 16: Error Handling, Monitoring, and Observability 17. Chapter 17: Cloud-Native Patterns 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Writing unit tests

Unit tests are written to test individual units of code, such as methods and classes. Unit tests are typically written by developers who are familiar with the code. When developers develop new features or fix bugs, they should also write unit tests to ensure that the code works as expected. There are many unit testing frameworks available for .NET, including NUnit, xUnit, and MSTest. In this chapter, we will use xUnit to write unit tests since it is one of the most popular unit testing frameworks for modern .NET applications at present.

Preparing the sample application

The sample application, InvoiceApp, is a simple ASP.NET Core web API application that exposes a set of RESTful APIs for managing invoices. The sample application uses EF Core to store and retrieve data from a SQL Server database. It has the following endpoints:

  • Invoices API: This endpoint is used to manage invoices. It supports the following operations:
    • GET /api/invoices: Retrieves a list...
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