An overview of automated testing

Testing is an integral part of the development process, and automated testing becomes crucial in the long run. You can always run your ASP.NET Core website, open a browser, and click everywhere to test your features. That’s a legitimate approach, but it is harder to test individual rules or more complex algorithms that way. Another downside is the lack of automation; when you first start with a small app containing a few pages, a few endpoints, or a few features, it may be fast to perform those tests manually. However, as your app grows, it becomes more tedious, takes longer, and the likelihood of making a mistake increases. Don’t get me wrong here; you will always need real users to test out your applications, but you may want those tests to focus on the UX, the content, or on some experimental features that you are building instead of bug reports that automated tests could have caught early on.

There are multiple types of tests...