What is Speaker Meet?
We're using the Speaker Meet application as a case study in Test-Driven Development. Speaker Meet is a website dedicated to connecting technology speakers, user groups, and conferences. Anyone who has helped organize a user group or tech conference knows it’s often difficult to find speakers. And as technology speakers, it's often difficult to coordinate speaking engagements outside your immediate area. Speaker Meet helps bring technology speakers and communities together.
At the time of writing, the application is still in development, but it is a terrific platform to explore TDD concepts and principles as they relate to real-world applications. Speaker Meet consists of a RESTful API in .NET with a Single Page Application (SPA) in JavaScript, utilizing the React library.
Web API project
For our first exercise, we'll be creating a new API endpoint. This new endpoint will return a list of speakers based on a supplied search term. We'll be utilizing this endpoint in our...